Useful enough that it should be an OS-level standard feature, imho.
Unix-like OSes allow mounting disk images to explore their contents. But there's many more file formats where exploring files-inside-files is useful. Compressed archives, for one. Some file managers support those, but (imho) application-level is not the optimal layer to put this functionality.
Could be implemented with a kind of driver-per-filetype.
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