Re: life extension - file extension
You may find this of interest:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/317992/is-there-any-way-to-get-the-path-of-a-folder-in-macos/
Not defending Finder in the least, but still a useful shortcut. I use Forklift.
One thing I suspect Apple likes to do is to have you rely as much as possible on its system, rather than giving you context. Besides doing this to filenames, they also helpfully make it very difficult to show an actual phone #, rather than a contact name, in iOS. Fear of getting lost - another way to keep you from straying on to other pastures.
BB10, on the contrary, would display both the contact name as well as the #.