That's a good point. I think something like this would work extremely well in manual workflows and personally I can see myself using it from within my text edit

That's a good point. I think something like this would work extremely well in manual workflows and personally I can see myself using it from within my text editor, such as vscode. Scripts, as you said, might be better off with sed/awk. Edit: Or, as OP said in a sister comment, using -t and using the Perl command in scripts makes a lot of sense.