A related observation I would offer is that not every environment / system can be fixed with a layer of duct tape like this. Unintuitive defaults, annoying lon

A related observation I would offer is that not every environment / system can be fixed with a layer of duct tape like this. Unintuitive defaults, annoying long command-line options, needing to take many separate steps to complete one task are all problems that can be trivially and permanently solved with shell macros and wrapper scripts. Performance problems, using the wrong data structures, random crashes, on the other hand cannot be solved this way.