Plenty of techies love idealized versions of open protocols, even horrible ones like FTP. Similar story for ubiquitous tools. Shell is a horrible tool with a f

Plenty of techies love idealized versions of open protocols, even horrible ones like FTP. Similar story for ubiquitous tools. Shell is a horrible tool with a few lucky features (pipes, focus on text) that's everywhere so it wins by default. And techies turn a blind eye to its million defects.