Why would you be a weirdo? Two-panel is the only somewhat sane way to navigate the file system, though I still try to Ctrl+\ and need to remember to Alt+S and only then to type the search pattern.
It's just that I see so many people today with those new fangled, asynchronous, rusty thingummywuts full of unicode and sixels and kitties and whatnot that sometimes I wonder, but an orthodox FM is the only life I understand and my neural pathways for NC + MC key shortcuts run deep. I'm also a diehard mcedit user and I refuse to vi* unless forced, so that might be the weird bit. It's all good.
> so many people today with those new fangled, asynchronous, rusty thingummywuts full of unicode and sixels and kitties and whatnot
Ah, those localhost admins? Sure, if I only had a one or two machines then I probably would had some fancy-shmancy 3D TUI object navigator with a direct rendering to VRAM (supported on a whole lot of videoadapters from the list of three). But I have many, many machines to do the things - and all these things are boring, like looking in the logs and mangling the supreme configuration formatted files. And typing `cd /var/log/shitservice` get boring extremely fast.
Used Midnight Commander within an SSH client…. on my iPhone lol
Being able to click in Midnight Commander makes this surprisingly usable for quick jobs!