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>Finder is an application one would have to pay a team of developers with the core instruction of 'make it a non-intuitive and unusable mess'

Some people seem to hate it but for me it’s absolute joy to use and the only file manager designed properly and for power users.

Explorer totally falls apart once files in a folder are in the 10,000s performance anside its sorting and search are anemic compared to Finder.

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Again, it's to take care of which use case falls in the majority - to optimize the 364 days of the year when I'm dealing with folders not having 10000 files/sub-folders in a folder or 1 day when I have to open such a folder. I thought macOS thought about those things since people were really singing hyperboles about it. It doesn't even show where you are by default! The file open dialog doesn't even allow to directly copy paste a path in a non-obscure way, same goes with any Finder window! Sure, you might have one indirect way or other for achieving these, but wasn't it all about the design choices it makes by default where people said it shines?

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