> Nothing stops you from creating an interface that maps that row to a file.
That's true, nothing stops you, though it is worth noting that no one actually does this, and there's a reason for that. So suppose you did this; how are you going to use that in a makefile?
Says who? Nothing stops you from creating an interface that maps that row to a file.
That's the whole point of Unix.
Heck, look at the /proc filesystem tree. Even cpu sensor data is available as a file.