#2 is the correct way to get rid of it. But it still doesn’t address the issue of the fact that it’s there and is nonstandard.

To me, needing to issue a TERMINAL COMMAND is HELLISHLY more complex than it needs to be. It is not “simple” by any stretch of the imagination. You COULD use Powershell/CMD to do crap like this but the point is that in Windows basic stuff like this is EASY to do and follows LOGICAL, PREDICTABLE steps.

Obviously, as someone who has debugged hundreds of thousands of lines of assembly in IDA Pro, it’s not “hard” for me to use the terminal to show hidden files or create an archive, but I really don’t care about whether it’s “hard” for me. The point is that it is outrageously harder IN COMPARISON to Windows to achieve the same thing (create a simple Zip file without added thumbnails/metadata). Using a command line to accomplish things is virtually NEVER easier unless you (a) have a photographic memory (b) there is no other way. Unix/Linux/Ubuntu did not become more popular/usable by ELIMINATING graphical options.

Saying “oh here’s the solution, just download a third party application to correct the problem” is basically agreeing that Mac has failed to do anything better than the competition, since that is basically how Windows/nix work. The whole point of Mac is ALLEGEDLY that is does things better/more simply out of the box, but in fact it requires terminal commands to make basic changes…