Yeah, I've never understood why people struggle with this idea with iPhoto. I never go to find my photos in the finder, always through iPhoto. It is just like iTunes; you wouldn't go through the finder and into the iTunes music folder to player a song, you open up iTunes.
Windows users have the hardest time understanding that a program can do everything for you. I know someone who must micromanage her music files into folders by artist, and yet she uses iTunes. I told her that iTunes can do this for her, but she hates how iTunes also creates album folders inside of the artist folders.
I asked her why this even matters when you only listen to music through iTunes, and you never actually touch the files after. She said because it has to look pretty.
Why in the world does the folder organization have to look pretty if you're never going to click on the files after importing them to iTunes?
I want to switch her to Mac, but I have a feeling that she would just go insane with iPhoto.