DEVONthink 2 showed the current database’s plus the selected record’s name in a main window’s title:
(Offtopic: Found this image via startpage.com, it’s from @DanielWessel’s blog. Daniel, thanks for “Organizing creativity”! I thought I lost my copy but turns out I still got it. Will reread it!)
And DEVONthink 3 (at least the beta) showed the same info:
Not sure whether this info was removed from DEVONthink after the beta or whether it was removed due to macOS changes (e.g. not enough free space anymore). I’m fine with DEVONthink’s path bar (although showing the database’s plus selected record’s name in the window title could still be useful).
But I can’t imagine how the path bar could be improved. What do you have in mind?