I put 'right thing' in inverted commas because I know how slippery it can be. Gui apps have defaults too, this isn't a problem unique to terminal apps. I'll go

I put 'right thing' in inverted commas because I know how slippery it can be. Gui apps have defaults too, this isn't a problem unique to terminal apps. I'll go further and say GUI apps suffer more because they tend to design around a default and have many fewer non default options, in the name of being easy to use. Terminal apps on the other hand 'suffer' because they don't make enough assumptions about how it is to be used. Suffer is very much in inverted commas though, sometimes you want to do that niche thing, and having something that makes no assumptions about how it will be used is great. On the other hand having to read a manpage for the simplest of things is not so great.