In general I follow your argument, but as I said this is the defacto standard OS FatFS implementation, not just any hacked FS. If something needs to be considered not thoroughly tested that would be the FreeRTOS-Plus library.
NOTE : FreeRTOS-Plus-FAT is a FreeRTOS Labs project. It is fully functional, and quite mature, but as an originally acquired (rather than authored) product it does not necessarily meet our production code or testing standards.