Darn, they pulled a Sublime Text on us. The new annual payment licensing model is unfortunate, I wouldn't have helped with beta testing if I knew this is what they were going to do. It's not really a service and historically they haven't been putting out a stream of useful new features on a regular basis to justify the subscription.

You are just subscribing to updates. The license is perpetual.

Another Mac native (though much older) choice is Path Finder, which I used and loved for years before Finder stopped sucking.

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