Nonsense—a shell is not a full screen ncurses app like the others you've mentioned and probably wouldn't want it to be due to having to carry the scrollback buf

Nonsense—a shell is not a full screen ncurses app like the others you've mentioned and probably wouldn't want it to be due to having to carry the scrollback buffer. You're the only person to implement this slower/problematic/nifty design in five decades, on a FLOSS operating system. Just a guess but maybe your attitude is also part of the problem.