That's the great thing about these tools. There is no need to serve as fundamental tools of a system that conform to some ancient spec like POSIX. There is no n

That's the great thing about these tools. There is no need to serve as fundamental tools of a system that conform to some ancient spec like POSIX. There is no need for that because those tools already exist and work well. So if that's the behavior you want, then just use those tools. They work exceptionally well when called by other programs, like shell scripts, because they have reasonably standardized behavior. But with these tools, we have the freedom to revisit old assumptions. One of those is smart filtering. I can't tell you how many people tell me that they enjoy that as a good default. Tools should make the fact that they do smart filtering very clear, because it can be surprising if you aren't expecting it. But otherwise, I'm not particularly sympathetic to your reasoning here because: 1) what I said above about standard tools being available and 2) these tools should have ways of disabling smart filtering. So if it bites you, it should bite you only once. After that, you either learn to like it, learn to setup an alias and forget about it, or ragequit the tool.