[reaperducer]

Your list isn't great. Some of the items are out of date. Some were just not knowing how to do things, like dragging something to achieve your goal, rather than right-clicking. I'd like to help you out and explain in detail, but I'm on mobile. But even if I was a Windows guy, it's not a list to show off.

Edit: One example: "Explorer shows you the path tree to the current directory, and it lets you copy that path to the clipboard."

In Finder, press Command-Option-P to show and hide the path. And instead of using the clipboard, which might have something else in it you need, in Finder you drag the filename from the path to where you need it - a file dialog, the terminal, a document, wherever.

Also, you can drag individual parts of the path, so instead of being limited to copying the entire path, you can copy just the bits that you want.

And if you Option-drag one of those items into a terminal, it actually changes the directory to that location.

Again, it's just about not being familiar with how things work. That's not entirely your fault, since some options are hidden. But that's less common these days. Almost everything is exposed in the menu bar, with its keyboard shortcut.

[drewzero1]

Something I often forget when using Mac OS is that you can just drag the folder icon from the titlebar of the finder window directly to the terminal (or wherever you need the path). It's a neat trick that's saved me a lot of typing or copy/pasting, when I remember it's there.

[Someone]

Unfortunately, that has gotten more difficult in Big Sur8s Preview. It show the icon until you click the file name.

TexEdit keeps the old-style, as does Numbers, so I’m not sure what the preferred way is, nowadays, but I tend to move downloaded PDFs that way, so for me, it feels like it’s worse everywhere.

(Aside: looked at https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/ to see whether Preview’s new way is copied anywhere. That page clearly shows document based applications are becoming an endangered species)

[phyrex]

That drove me nuts, but you can turn it off with a defaults setting. I don’t have it at hand but it’s easily googleable

[falcolas]

Dragging selected items to copy/paste them is pretty universal. I know I’ve done that in Windows as well. Ironically, it’s not available in every Mac app - many won’t let you drag text or images out of them.

[reaperducer]

Dragging selected items to copy/paste them is pretty universal

Exactly. So I don't know why the parent is making an issue of what is clearly operator error. Or at least a lack of operator know-how.