I share the same opinion, I was made fun of with the "useless use of cat award" but find it so convienent to cat | grep then cat | grep | awk | wc then whateve

I share the same opinion, I was made fun of with the "useless use of cat award" but find it so convienent to cat | grep then cat | grep | awk | wc then whatever with data flowing left to right and modifying the command sequence as I explore the file content.