Following the unix philosophy we should have one command to manage physical interfaces, another for ethernet level stuff, separate commands to manage ipv4 and i

Following the unix philosophy we should have one command to manage physical interfaces, another for ethernet level stuff, separate commands to manage ipv4 and ipv6 addresses, then v4 and v6 multicast, another for vlans, different ones for v4 and v6 route tables, and so on, all with an inconsistent cli interface and output. As a network engineer pre-ip linux was a disaster, while ip is a joy to work with.