ls is a very poor example as it was a program built in v1 Unix over 50 years ago which has remained the same due to backwards compatibility and being standardiz

ls is a very poor example as it was a program built in v1 Unix over 50 years ago which has remained the same due to backwards compatibility and being standardized in POSIX. We are arguing over whether the glass is half empty or half full. I can also come up with plenty of examples of poorly designed programs, but I can also bring up examples of programs which are not perfect but much more usable than ls. I’m sure you could have also picked a program which is better designed than ls as well.