Allow files being copied to merge with existing files instead of replacing

As a windows switcher, I am used to the fact that I can drag Folder A with Folder B and C inside on Hard Drive 1 over to Folder A with Folder D and E inside on Hard Drive 2 and it would just merge the two giving you Folder A with B,C,D and E on hard drive 2.
Why on God's green earth can't OS X do this!?!? I even asked my father-in-law who is a retired Tier 2 apple tech support and he said it can't be done but to post here.
Apple! Give us the option to replace or merge

Is funny to see people saying that MAcOs is not windows
If we talk about the fact that the 2 os are totally different because they work in a different way is one thing; while if we say that the UI (that's what finder is...a UI, same for IE on Windows...you can call it AERO or whatever you like, but is IE in the end) is totally different we are going to say something that is incorrect.
The left click is left click on any OS, same for the right one that calls the contextual menu...these are things that were set up as default by almost all the modern os that has a UI instead of being textual; so if MacOs wanna replace instead of merge is a problem for who use Unix/solaris/bsd/linux, Windows, Beos, AmigaOs and others.
The point is not that me, the user, adapt to the os, but is the OS that must do what i want, because i am the one that use it; so would make more sense to add features like every other os does, and make happy the users, instead of delivering this software ultra simplified (except the pro apps) that simply says "this is what i wanna give you, use it, adapt to it and don't try to do something else except what i let you to do"....are we free to operate an os in the way that we want? The answer is no
Doesn't cost too much to do operations in a way or another, or get used to an os or another, but in the end the lack of a replace (like the lack of a move instead of copying) is something that surprise me...seems that Apple while writing functionality, decide that some has to be cut off...probably because they have no clue how to resolve an issue or being lazy (somebody said the issue with the duplicates in Itunes, or the impossible management of more than one library without loosing ratings and playcounts?).
No offense, but if something can be done with AmigaOs, that is based on Unix (like MacOs) and more than 15 years old, i can't really understand why MacOs has to bother users in this way without giving choices to decide how they wanna copy their folders
an example above all: i have poser, a lot of material come in zip files where the runtime folder is zipped, so on pc is enough to decompress the zip file and copy it into the main poser directory, so the files inside the runtime folder will merge (we are talking of 10-20 folder nested in each other...takes 10 minutes to do the operation by hand as suggested ); I tried the same on MAc and the result was that i lost an afternoon installing stuff without realizing that i was not merging but replacing LOL
If any of you has poser he knows what i am talking about....and the solution? launch bootcamp or parallels and then copy the runtime folder from the pc drive to mac drive
Tidal...long story short.....get parallels and organize the files with Windows, then copy the folder on Mac and replace it
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