BTW: Mac does have cut-and-paste (since 2012) and anyway has had the equivalent drag-and-drop since the start
Clearly if they didn't have it before, and then they introduced it, they must have thought it was necessary and that users would appreciate it.
Article announcing 'the news':
[/I]"The Mac now has
the highly desirable “Cut and Paste” file feature throughout the Mac OS X desktop and Finder, allowing users to truly cut and paste to move the selected documents or folders to a new location, rather than just making a copy of them. In this sense, the cut & paste ability behaves much like the Windows explorer counterpart, and it
represents a fast and efficient way to move and relocate files from one location to another location, without using the standard drag & drop approach that has been standard on the Mac since the origins of the OS."