Agreed, but I don't see a use-case for it given that we have ranger[1]. I find the two-pane navigation + embedded preview + easy opening of files when moving into them to be a perfect combination.

Given your workflow, you might want to give ranger a try?

[1]: https://ranger.github.io/

bat is another nice rust utility, a kind of combination of cat and less with line numbers and colors. If there's more than a screenfull of text it acts as a pager, otherwise like cat.