I'm using Jetbrains' Pycharm to develop django projects.
One of the features (of probably all jetbrains IDE's) is "open in explorer".
I found Pycharm the only program until now that really uses Windows Explorer anymore.
I almost forgot I had that tool on me pc .
It's possible that Pycharm runs explorer.exe directly, rather than launching the folder via ShellExecute or similar APIs which act like the folder was double-clicked. If that's the case then it's something that would need changing on the Pycharm side.
Another possibility is that they do use ShellExecute but use the "open" verb (which runs Explorer) rather than pass null for the verb (which runs the default file manager).