Stop macOS from reusing Finder windows

If I have a Finder window open for browsing, for example, my home folder, and then I want to open the applications folder by clicking the desktop, using the menu at the top, Go → Apps (or just the keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + A), Finder will steal the window I currently have open for browsing my home catalog and instead open the apps folder in that Finder window.

I don't like it when finder steals my windows, and I would very much prefer Finder finding its own window for displaying the apps folder. Is there a setting I can do to prevent Finder from re-using my open windows?

That's always annoyed me too, but I don't know any way to avoid it other than opening a new window manually first.

Cmd ⌘ N
Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ A

It's pretty quick, considering.

The issue is perceptual. You're expecting the application/document model, when it's the browser/page model.

Finder is navigating, not opening documents.

If you open a second document in Word, you now have two documents open.

But if you click a link in "Hot Network Questions" over on the right, it takes this browser window there. In fact if you click a bookmark/favorite, it navigates this window there.

See the difference? In one case you are opening a document, in the other case you are navigating content.

Finder like any file manager, is set up like a navigator, because that is how most people interact with folders/directories most of the time.

The "Go..." menu is like bookmarks/favorites.

Holding the Cmd ⌘ key while double-clicking on any folder, will open that folder in a new tab or window