You could ask the same questions about any user interface change. Surely you can just kept grafting new limbs onto existing bodies, but a command like ip actual

You could ask the same questions about any user interface change. Surely you can just kept grafting new limbs onto existing bodies, but a command like ip actually does make sense when you look at the breadth of things jammed into the new command structure. The article we’re talking about questions what “progress” is and points out things that actually have serious advantages, often technical in some regard, but then disregards those advantages and talks about minor inconveniences like 70 MB disk space footprints and a couple new commands to remember.