I think you need to caveat the word "pointless" heavily. If 95% of the commands I type are in my local dev environment where I can install a variety of tools, t

I think you need to caveat the word "pointless" heavily. If 95% of the commands I type are in my local dev environment where I can install a variety of tools, then I don't see how it's pointless to learn different tools for the common case. Otherwise, you're just needlessly limiting yourself to a constrained set of tooling with zero opportunity for any kind of progress or improvement. Even though I'm the author of ripgrep, believe it or not, I still use grep in those 5% of cases without any kind of fuss.