It's what the SYNOPSIS section is for, at the top of the man page, so you don't need to scroll down in the pager. In a more general sense, though, this is why

It's what the SYNOPSIS section is for, at the top of the man page, so you don't need to scroll down in the pager. In a more general sense, though, this is why BSD systems generally try to avoid bloat in the core utilities. It's not about the code size - it never was - but rather the overhead on maintainers and users.