I think this is more that "more features" = "more marketable" which impacts far more than just "unix tools" or even just software. Also, simplifiation does not

I think this is more that "more features" = "more marketable" which impacts far more than just "unix tools" or even just software. Also, simplifiation does not never happen. E.g., I have a near trivial impl (under 300 lines of Nim) at https://github.com/c-blake/kslog https://github.com/c-blake/kslog { yeah, it may not be of very wide appeal..See the first point. :-) } I feel a better factoring/separation of concerns is to disentangle file/data distribution from getting in-socket data somewhere persistent.