You can:

Copy current path: Option + Command + C [1] Cut & paste: Alt + Command + Move (actually moves the file)

It's just bad that these simple things are very much hidden.

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/47216/copying-the-...

It moves the file? That's not the use case. The use case is copying a path and pasting it into the address bar of Explorer, and then Explorer showing the contents of the path. No file action is implied.