> I may be a little cynical but when I read the words "modern utilities" my first associations are: (...) I think this comment is too short-sighted and naive.

> I may be a little cynical but when I read the words "modern utilities" my first associations are: (...) I think this comment is too short-sighted and naive. In the end at best it's an apples-to-oranges comparison between what you personally like and are used to with a cherry-picked set of tools and what you personally don't like and have an axe to grind with a cherry-picked set of strawmen. There are plenty of decades-old tools that provide colorful TUI interfaces that don't integrate with standard tools and make them hard to reuse with UNIX tooling. There are plenty of excellent non-standard tools that are quite recent and raise the bar in UX. This is not an old-vs-new comparison. This is reads like a rant directed at strawmen. Let's face the facts: JSON is excellent as a data interchange format, and YAML is a far improvement in expressiveness over INI-type formats. Colors are important to make things human-readable, and TUI is a UX godsend in applications that involve view-heavy data presentation and ensure complex commands can be a key press away.