That's a really interesting example. I think I'm having a hard time articulating my question, partly because I don't fully understand the entire stack of softwa

That's a really interesting example. I think I'm having a hard time articulating my question, partly because I don't fully understand the entire stack of software and standards underlying a modern terminal app on a desktop. I feel like there is a lot of historical baggage in that stack, but I don't know where exactly, or why. I was using "the VT standard" as a sort of proxy for that historical baggage, but maybe that's not accurate.