explorer is the exact reason I used Windows exclusively for decades. that, and having the Address input bar in the taskbar so i could rapidly type out and access folders.
then Windows 11 decided to remove that feature for absolutely zero reason.
then Windows 11 decided to remove that feature for absolutely zero reason.
A prevailing theory is that advanced users opt out of telemetry, where as regular users don't. So Microsoft has no idea what advanced users use and the OS gradually becomes less sophisticated.
1: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/25855505/how-to-mak...
Otherwise the path becomes clickable buttons... which is nice sometimes when you're going back a few directories as you can just click any parent to get a list of it's siblings drop-down style.
My favorite feature is just typing cmd into the title bar which launches it at the current directory.