To be clear, I am saying that this one feature is done better in Finder. Explorer has many cool features, but in this case it's not up to par. Both examples pr

To be clear, I am saying that this one feature is done better in Finder. Explorer has many cool features, but in this case it's not up to par. Both examples present us a line of breadcrumbs. Both allow you to interact with the breadcrumbs directly and use them to navigate, or right-click to copy them as a filesystem path. so far so good. But Explorer falls short here: At no point does the filename you are focused on appear in the trail of breadcrumbs. Not in default mode, nor in the abrupt switch to plaintext if you click a little past the breadcrumbs. In Finder, the focused file appears at the end of the list and you can right click to copy the full path. Essentially, Explorer is limited to providing the enclosing folder only, which is a kind of stunted quality to this feature. I'd say in the majority of cases, you are trying to grab this path to do something to a specific file, not to an enclosing folder. Copying off of a network share, or some GUI scp/sftp application... those sorts of things. In Explorer, no matter what you are forced to switch modes to the keyboard, to type out the file name. This is just not the case in Finder. You can grab the path up to the file name from the get go and do your thing, never switching modes to the keyboard if that's how you want to work. For that reason alone the Finder implementation of this specific feature is superior. And one last thing? at no point did I say you have to 'edit any preferences' about this. You can toggle the breadcrumbs on/off with a single item in the 'view' menu. Some people may have toggled it off, so I thought I'd point it out.