“Programmers” are definitely not the ones making calls on stuff like this. There may well be some generational turnover, but the value of performance for these

“Programmers” are definitely not the ones making calls on stuff like this. There may well be some generational turnover, but the value of performance for these sorts of tasks is not judged by the folks implementing them. Product owners are the ones who decide on the priorities. And keeping stuff like this snappy is undoubtedly a lot of work that mid range managers are reluctant to stick their neck out over. So yeah you need someone at the top who cares about it. But I’m guessing so few people even use the finder for file management day to day these days that it rarely even comes up.