Agreed on the defaults, if you want to improve this there are a few related options to be aware of: 1) Edit the toolbar and add "Path" dropdown 2) View menu -

Agreed on the defaults, if you want to improve this there are a few related options to be aware of: 1) Edit the toolbar and add "Path" dropdown 2) View menu -> Show path bar 3) Cmd + up/down arrows to navigate up and down the path hierarchy But of course, when talking about how intuitive Macs are, having all that hidden by default doesn't exactly make it easy to understand where you are in the filesystem. It feels a bit like the Mac side of their desire to just not have a user visible filesystem on the iPad, which thankfully they've given up on it because shooting documents back and forth between apps via Share buttons was terrible.