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I brought it up not to nitpick semantics, but to elucidate to the, arguably more technical audience of HN, how the technical details can matter here.

Even to call it a "system" dialog is misleading, since it's just a system-provided library that each individual app is, technically, free to use or not use.

I certainly agree that it's annoying when the look, feel, and fucntion of all the apps' common interactions don't match each other. I do recall a time, though, when the system library features were so anemic, that I was actually glad of app's departure from the norm if it provided a useful new feature (e.g. "New Folder" button in a "Save" dialog).

I also agree that makes the suggestion of "use a Finder replacement app" not a solution to your real problem.

Maybe I'm suggesting that, to a nerdy-enough audience, you might have to state your real problem as being with "the Finder and all the system provided file-picking dialogs other apps tend to use".