Right, but the Finder does have Copy and Paste. Cmd-C and Cmd-V have worked in the Finder since the very first Mac. It's even in the edit menu. I suppose they

Right, but the Finder does have Copy and Paste. Cmd-C and Cmd-V have worked in the Finder since the very first Mac. It's even in the edit menu. I suppose they expect you to click and drag to move a file, rather than the slightly unintuitive Cut and Paste on entire files. There's no real physical analogy for a cut.