Yeah, it would e.g. Be awesome to standardize all the arguments and flags and even the format of those between all the tools (also: how to define "all the tools

Yeah, it would e.g. Be awesome to standardize all the arguments and flags and even the format of those between all the tools (also: how to define "all the tools"), but it'll never happen due to backwards compatibility / the way people know how to do stuff. As much as these tools are each individually weird and nuanced and stupid and broken, they come together to glue a scary amount of stuff together. It'll get better through rewrites, new tools, different infrastructures etc long before it gets better through iteration on the same tools. That's OK though :)