Corrected - "increase" -> "control". My point is, UNIX tools are designed to be easy to use by the expert (easy to chain), but hard for beginners (not chatty).

Corrected - "increase" -> "control". My point is, UNIX tools are designed to be easy to use by the expert (easy to chain), but hard for beginners (not chatty). There's also a lot of neglect towards giving users useful feedback, because feedback just doesn't happen by default, so why improve it?