Well... I agree that 2010 NTFS beats a lot of filesystems that were released in 2002 or so. That was kind of expected.

It's also notable NTFS is now catching up to some features that were part of Unix-heritage filesystems since the 90's. Like symlinks and mountpoints.

Eh, "2010 NTFS"? NTFS is more than decade old and it's 2002 version was also better than a lot of filesystem "released in 2002".

And NTFS had mountpoints since Windows 2000.

Correct - mount points are part of 2000 (NTFS 3). I have no doubt NTFS 3 was better than some filesystems released in 2002, provided enough people released filesystems in 2002. It was also probably better than many filesystems still in use on 2002.

Still, NTFS is catching up to other modern features like symlinks...

AFAIK, which is somewhat limited because I am not a Windows user and don't work in a Microsoft shop, NTFS has some cool features, like transactions, I don't think ext3 had. It also has compression (something that makes a lot of sense if you have more processor than disk bandwidth or space) and folder encryption. Oh.. And transactions. Did I miss something?