[w3ctag/design-reviews] Moving non-OPFS files for the File System Access API (Issue #805)

Wotcher TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of `FileSystemFileHandle.move()` for local files.

When launching [SyncAccessHandles](https://github.com/whatwg/fs/pull/21), we launched `FileSystemFileHandle.move()` for files within the [Origin Private File System](https://web.dev/file-system-access/#accessing-files-optimized-for-performance-from-the-origin-private-file-system) (OPFS). Moving of files outside of the OPFS and moving directories at all are not yet supported.

We're proposing to allow the `FileSystemFileHandle.move()` method to move files that do not live in the Origin Private File System, i.e. user-visible files on the device.

  - Explainer: https://github.com/a-sully/fs/pull/2

  - Specification URL: https://github.com/whatwg/fs/pull/10

  - Tests: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/fs/script-tests/FileSystemFileHandle-move.js

  - Security and Privacy self-review: https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/blob/main/security-privacy-questionnaire.md for the API more broadly, though the explainer for this feature addresses more specific security and privacy concerns
  - GitHub repo: https://github.com/whatwg/fs

  - Primary contacts (and their relationship to the specification):
      - Austin Sullivan (@a-sully), Google Chrome
  - Organization(s)/project(s) driving the specification: Google/Chromium
  - Key pieces of existing multi-stakeholder review or discussion of this specification:
  - External status/issue trackers for this specification: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5640802622504960


Further details:

  - [x] I have reviewed the TAG's [Web Platform Design Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/)
  - The group where the work on this specification is currently being done: [whatwg/fs](https://github.com/whatwg/fs/) and [WICG/file-system-access](https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access). Initial work was started WICG, but many relevant parts to this proposal have been moved to whatwg. This specific feature involves local (non-OPFS) files, which are not specified in whatwg.
  - The group where standardization of this work is intended to be done: [whatwg/fs](https://github.com/whatwg/fs/)
  - Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification:
  - This work is being funded by: Google

We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as:

  🐛 open issues in our GitHub repo for **each point of feedback**

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