absolute path to media is horrible

I am growing ever frustrated with premieres use of absolute paths to media.  We work with a lot of freelancers and when I download a project they have been working on, I can spend sometimes 10 minutes just relinking the files (another side annoyance is the adobe file finder used to find files...it sucks...please let us use the os native file finder to find files, it would be different if yours was better, it is not)

Now to add to the frustration, today I discovered that premiere does not save the most recent absolute path, but the original.  Yesterday I was working at home and had to relink a bunch of files for a project.  Today I am at the office and when I relinked, a bunch did not auto relink as they had the absolute path to the files from the original editor, not the absolute paths from my relink yesterday.

It is absolutely rediculous that adobe is using absolute paths in the first place, nothing is gained and a lot is lost (a lot of time that is)

[Moderator note: as this is a suggestion for a "feature change" it has been moved to the Ideas post section of this forum so that it 1) flags it for the developers to see and 2) allows other users to upvote it.]