[butokai]

I just moved to macOS for the first time, and my only way to adapt to its multi-tasking has been keeping exactly one window per open application, never zero or more than one. The fact that Finder can't be treated like that is a real pain. I will focus on it essentially randomly, and it will disrupt my intended interaction.

I don't get the reasoning behind the zero-window cmd-tab interaction, but if it is there I guess that there's a reason behind it?

[ankurdhama]

On macOS you can have an app that is running without any windows open and you use the menu bar to invoke different commands in that app. This is why cmd+tab allows you to switch to an app that doesn't have any window open, essentially cmd+tab is an app switcher and not a window switcher. If you want a window switcher you can use AltTab an open source window switcher for macOS.

[andriesm]

Why is there no finder specific setting that if it receives focus and has no window open it automatically creates the default one?

The current behavior is such a terrible user experience.

I don't know how a company as big as apple can leave everyday things in such a terrible state.