@Rusty I also feel attacked and/or huggled. Currently at 896 top level files (218,931 files recursively), totaling 244.1 GiB (not trying to make it a race, nuh-uh! Just for those interested in statistics...).
Whenever I run low on disk space I just sort by biggest size and start deleting things from there, leaving my downloads folder full of smol little things over time.