XY spoils us to expect better from other apps!

[eil]

Short-story: suddenly got a need to easily find non-fully viewed videos in big playlists, obviously i started to check if there are Bookmarks feature in video player i use, found feature but was very surprised by awkward behaviour, asked on one of fan forums of that player what i'm doing wrong, after some quarrel-discussion understood "the reason" of my problems.
I was surprised, that when i select earlier created bookmark, player doesn't scroll playlist to position of that video to start playing, it didn't even try to open bookmarked video in that same playlist. Instead player closed my big playlist with lots of bookmarked items and opened Default one, to start video there. Checked several more players and found all work in such IMO dumb way. But why is it dumb for me and why am i expecting different behaviour?!

The "reason of my problem" is XY!(or more precise features ike say "Reuse existing tabs when changing the location")
As i use XYplorer for more than 10 years, and it's the most used program on every day basis, i get used to its functionality, flexability, and didn't even expect other apps to work so illogical, yet not even providing ability to configure.
Don created a monster, that spoils us to expect other apps have same level of thought through concept, while they're not.!

[admin]

Ha!

[eil]

Here i'm back with 2 more examples how XY spoiled me.!

Friend asked to set some things in new laptop and i was fullish enough to think i would be fine with default File Explorer there. Oh i was wrong.. a simple thing made me super mad. Each time some text was selected, whether it's renaming or in address bar, just by habit i was pressing left arrow once to de-select text and get to the left side - the marvellous Explorer simply unselects and shifts 1 step to the left. Tiny things really DO matter.

This example was a bigger "how so?!" for me. Planned to make a compiled backup script on AHK. What is backup usually build on? Copying some files and folders, preserving dates, desirably making it possible to compare copies for less useless copies. I already had similar script on XY and it works good, but for pity XY can't compile its scripts and can't track some process presence in RAM.
Sooo first i've got a surprise that unlike XY scripting, i can't simply copy everything = files and folders are handled by separate commands. "Well, probably it has reasons" - i though. Then it uncovered that recursive checks inside subs is quite a looping pain in AHK, so blessing to Don for making it comfortable in XY.
And lastly, just to kill me and my initial desire to make script on AHK, it appeared that it can't copy while preserving dates,(which effectively f**ks any idea of comparing items in backup versions by dates) But wait, there is more: it allows to retrieve or to set only 1 date per operation! So if i want to copy just 1 file while preserving dates, it's: 1 read-write copy operation, 3 read-date operation to get created-modified-accessed dates, and 3 write operations to set same dated on backup copy. Holy crap, 6 operations for each single item, and i don't believe it's not possible to at least read all 3 dates in 1 go (and later separate those in some variable).
True, i don't know if maybe XY does the same ton of single operations just undercover, but at least i can use a single command to retrieve/set ALL dates, and even make it via single command from one item to another = a pure miracle that i do appreciate now!

[admin]

Thanks for sharing.

[Garonne]

Don, we definitely need a "thumbs up" feature in the forum for absolutely correct posts like this one.

XY is definitely the absolutely only software where I never ever felt bad a single day for spending more than 40 € (i.e. 79 € I guess, but I can't actually remember since it's 11+ years ago.)