> On Windows you can drag the file right onto the ‘Browse…’ button I know, but I was illustrating a point about how the open/save panels work. That’s why in th

> On Windows you can drag the file right onto the ‘Browse…’ button I know, but I was illustrating a point about how the open/save panels work. That’s why in the following example, I mentioned that I’d just drag straight into the app. > Perhaps I’m too used to Windows’s idiosyncrasies Yes, you are. If you want an Explorer window, you should open Explorer. When you see a file picker dialog, you don’t see an extra Explorer process spawn nor does that dialog get added to Explorer’s list of windows. > This does not seem surprising to me Because you’re looking at it from a technical level, not a user interaction level. At the interaction level, what is the goal of an open/save panel? To pick a location. It doesn’t fundamentally need to do or be anything more than that. That its default behaviour is destructive is classifiable as ‘surprising’.