I don't understand why I'm being downvoted. Is my attitude coming across as smug? Am I being punished for being a critic of a classic Unix utility? To be clear,

I don't understand why I'm being downvoted. Is my attitude coming across as smug? Am I being punished for being a critic of a classic Unix utility? To be clear, dd is a fantastically flexible tool, but there are tools that better and more safely serve a subset of its functionality. Right tool for the job and all that.