I think you're really exaggerating the severity of what is fundamentally just a minor matter of personal taste. (I say this as somebody who's written a GUI wra

I think you're really exaggerating the severity of what is fundamentally just a minor matter of personal taste. (I say this as somebody who's written a GUI wrapper around rsync to, among other things, implement my own progress bar. So I agree with the general principle of writing porcelain around rsync.) (Incidentally --progress has actually changed in a way that breaks (my) scripts in the past; the version that ships with MacOS and the latest version exhibit different behavior by default. It would be nice if there was a better way. If rsync followed the ffmpeg model of foremost being a library with a standard command line interface, I think that could be ideal.)