You see a somewhat related degeneration in Redmond, where the new Windows Explorer doesn't have an icon in the address bar which is actually draggable so that a shortcut to the currently open folder can be created on the desktop or anywhere where such a shortcut can be used (think TrueLaunchBar). Now you have to go to the parent folder in order to Alt-Drag the folder to create a shortcut.
It's those little things which where smartly developed during the 80s and 90s, which "modern" developers seem not to have noticed and therefore just ignored while re-implementing applications like the Windows Explorer.