"I'm Emptying the Trash now, Dave"

[b]

My entire 'gripe' with the Finder, and sluggishness in OSX-Jaguar, is 
best summed-up by the annoying dialog box: "Preparing to empty the 
Trash"...that will remain on screen for many seconds, even if all 
that's being trashed is an alias or an empty folder...And then it 
pauses on the 'empty' frame for additional seconds...

Why? What's the matter with just getting it Done, a la OS 9?  I'm 
almost grateful that I have to use quark 5 in OS 9 to pay the 
bills,it provides expedient relief, and reminds me of the "make it 
so" nature of true user-friendliness. I wish Apple would get Quincy 
to have a look at the finder, and either fix it or put it out of its 
misery. Third-party 'finder substitutes' sound ok, but the homeboy 
Finder hates CMs and anything 3rd-party...so that's out, for now.

What is the engineering rationale for a Finder/alert method that 
appears so 'self'-absorbed as to need to announce its every move? 
Annoying. Does anyone else see this hundreds of times a day, or is it 
just me?

~flipper