I thought that /usr/local was a widely accepted place on UNIX systems like OS X for user installation of UNIX applications and tools (which are usually command

I thought that /usr/local was a widely accepted place on UNIX systems like OS X for user installation of UNIX applications and tools (which are usually command line utilities). /Applications on the other hand is where Mac-specific GUI apps are installed, right? You wouldn't clutter up /Applications with command line utilities like ffmpeg, ImageMagick, wget, youtube-dl, or sox, would you? Isn't this separation done by design?