explorer is the exact reason I used Windows exclusively for decades. that, and having the Address input bar in the taskbar so i could rapidly type out and access folders.
then Windows 11 decided to remove that feature for absolutely zero reason.
A prevailing theory is that advanced users opt out of telemetry, where as regular users don't. So Microsoft has no idea what advanced users use and the OS gradually becomes less sophisticated.
I guess similar issue with Safari not showing the url path by default, which is completely ridiculous. It is a large part of the UX. It is not going to be of benefit to anyone.
Chrome also hides things in the url that might confuse us helpless users[1], I think they made that terrible UI change before Safari followed them off the cliff. Another reason to use FF.
Yeah thats "Display the full path in the title bar" in folder options (where show hidden files and show extensions is at)
Otherwise the path becomes clickable buttons... which is nice sometimes when you're going back a few directories as you can just click any parent to get a list of it's siblings drop-down style.
My favorite feature is just typing cmd into the title bar which launches it at the current directory.
then Windows 11 decided to remove that feature for absolutely zero reason.