UI Beefs With Leopard Finder

I have a few:
1. The sidebar and the toolbar must be either both visible or both hidden. Cannot hide just one or the other.
2. When the selected volume is ejected from the sidebar, the Finder window is automatically closed.
3. When using column view, if a location is selected in the sidebar, that location is presented with no ability to scroll to the left to higher directories.
There seems to be a rather obvious disconnect in the vision of Finder. Is an individual Finder window meant to be a multi-session or single-session tool? Items 2 and 3, above, suggest that the idea behind Finder is that the user decides he needs something, opens a Finder window to get it, and then no longer needs that Finder window. However, why even have a sidebar, if this is how Finder is designed to be used? Why have back buttons and path traversal pulldown menus?
Clearly there is strong justification for using a Finder window instance to execute more than one operation, but then why is Finder so severely hampered in this regard?

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