Nautilus is nice, the UI is smooth, it has good error messages, it does what I want, it's attractive. I use it to organize my home dir, etc. If you don't like it don't use it, it's not like you paid for it. Nautilus is smooth and very comfortable. It's nothing but a joy to manage my home dir files with Nautilus.
Bash is just nice for such tasks.
Nautilus is the very first filemanager, I really like to use, for example to sort my mp3's or pictures or to sort my documents. And afterall it looks great. I like Nautilus and enjoy it very much. Rock solid under plain fvwm, and, seems, KDE, although I don't use KDE and did not stress tested it. As you can see, you still have the choice.