Spent 8 hours today on sprites with tft espi. Definitely worth it though as now there is no flickering when drawing lots of text items on the screen because they are all drawn at once. It also allowed me to add a text scrolling feature, so then when the file name is larger then a threshold it scrolls through it to display the whole file name. Then to wrap it up I added a file scroll thing on the side to display where you are in the list, looks pretty goo with antialiased graphics.

Heres a quick demo: