I can totally sympathize with this idea. When you pick a tool to make a specific task easier, you want it to do exactly that. I see this all the time in conver

I can totally sympathize with this idea. When you pick a tool to make a specific task easier, you want it to do exactly that. I see this all the time in conversation (with younger developers, mostly). They find it very difficult to understand how one can possibly survive without an (advanced) IDE, and most likely look at me as exactly that chimp. I'm a very basic user of IDEs. I don't use almost any of their advanced features, nor do I memorize anything beyond the most basic shortcuts. I can't even justify the investment to learn them properly, as context may require me to change IDEs (and that context is often an accumulation of grievances). On the other hand, I live inside the CLI, have no trouble composing basic tools to do what I want, and has been so for ages. I'd much rather have a toolbox of individual tools that I can choose from and mix-and-match over time, than a fancy all-in-one powertool that would trap me with sunk costs like a bad marriage.