[Teever]

I actually filed a bug report with Apple in 2005 regarding the inability to cut and paste files in Finder.

They actually responded a few years later and said that this is the intended functionality.

Maddening.

[Zarel]

They do support copy and move, which I think is clearer that the file doesn't get deleted if you don't "paste" it (and safer than if it did).

It's probably annoying to learn a new paradigm, but you could make the argument that it's worth it to learn something that isn't lying to you.