Finder resizing is broken

Is Finder broken in Yosemite? Whenever I resize the window to my preferred size, after closing, the window will be back to whatever size and place Finder believes it should be, not where I need it. Any suggestions, like  YOSEMITE TEAM, FIX THIS ASAP?

I am having an issue with views as well. Location, size, list view columns, even views with 'always open in' selected get ignored. I have reinstalled os x clean in trying to get rid of this issue after deleting finder prefs, repairing permissions, and deleting all ds_store files via terminal. Nothing works. Interestingly, it seems sometimes finder refuses to create a ds_store file even when changing view options. Sometimes, the file is created but eventually ignored.

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