I don't mind the "duplication" of Finder in the Open/Save dialogs because you can use the same keyboard shortcuts to whizz around the filesystem (Cmd-↑ Cmd-↓ Cm

I don't mind the "duplication" of Finder in the Open/Save dialogs because you can use the same keyboard shortcuts to whizz around the filesystem (Cmd-↑ Cmd-↓ Cmd-Shift-G), which is preferable to clickity draggity to me. Time to subscribe to that blog though. Every time I end up there it's a good post.