Yep, which is why the dislike for macOS's finder workflow of copy a file: ⌘+C (irrespective of cut/move/copy) -> decide at destination: ⌘+⌥+V (move) or ⌘+V (paste) confuses me. It's the best intuition imo.
Weirdly, Windows does the same thing which doesn't garner enough hate as it also excludes the associated good UX. Cut fades a file out in the explorer (akin to this "Ghost cut" concept) then a paste moves it (so you don't end up losing files).
Because you're trying to 'copy' it?
This feels baby-duck-y. No given mental model is more right than another. There's already not even a consistent model, because:
>Cut is copy and delete
So copy and delete! Or, in Vim and Emacs, just delete!
Off topic, but that’s actually my biggest pet peeve vim. You copy text one place to overwrite some other text, you delete the existing text and they you go to paste and… the buffer has been overwritten. It makes so much more sense to require users to hit the obvious, composable ‘yd’ in the cases they want to copy than an arcane incantation in the cases they want to overwrite text.
Why would you cut + undo as opposed to just copy? Are they not the same operation at that point?
Cut + undo, is copy with visual feedback