Comment by vel0city
So yes. Ignorance, goal post moving, acknowledging these features did exist just not to your standards so you claimed they didn't exist, and then pointing out a completely different application as a feature missing from a file browser. Finder doesn't have that "Preview" or "Quick Look" applications in MacOS, they're separate apps. And they're definitely not a "Preview pane" as you listed in your requirements.
More ignorance about the preview pane as well in this comment. You can quickly open and close the preview pane with Win+P. Files marked as downloaded from the internet or from file shares are blocked by default these days, one needs to unblock them for them to be opened by the Preview pane.
FWIW, beta builds have Notepad with markdown support. Sure, that's still not File Explorer having markdown support, but neither does Finder. But its whatever, you're shifting the goalposts to features for File Explorer compared to Finder + any other arbitrary application on the system.
What's the single keyboard shortcut on Finder to burn a new CD? If Finder doesn't have it, I guess MacOS is a trash OS with no redeemable value, since that's an obviously critical feature for people to have productive use of their operating systems in 2025.
I'm done here man. You just want to rant and complain features don't exist rather than spending two seconds to see if the feature is there or not.
I appreciate the conversation either way. I did learn a few things.
Ultimately I complain because I like windows and want it to improve. I'm just incredibly frustrated that after 20 years of explorer.exe this is the best a trillion dollar company can manage.