If this is feature creep at all, this is very old feature creep. It happened in 1981, when the ability to do graphics, actually available on some specialized t

If this is feature creep at all, this is very old feature creep. It happened in 1981, when the ability to do graphics, actually available on some specialized terminals from the decade before, became mainstream in the world of character mode terminals, when DEC put Sixel and ReGIS into its VT range. It has been in XTerm since the 20th century, and terminal emulators for MS/PC/DR-DOS like Reflection gained Sixel support somewhere around 1989. Don't be fooled into thinking that "the terminal" is what one can do on the kernel virtual terminals of Linux, FreeBSD, or SCO Xenix. The reality is that the massive reinvention wave of the 1990s and 2000s has actually lost you functionality that was in real, hardware, terminals and contemporary terminal emulation programs of the 1980s, and given those who never lived it a very blinkered idea of terminal functionality based upon 1960s TeleType terminals that was a little outdated even when Unix itself was invented.