1. we do know that it is because at this point generations of other people have shared their experience about how bad the defaults are. Why ignore it? 2. how i

1. we do know that it is because at this point generations of other people have shared their experience about how bad the defaults are. Why ignore it? 2. how is this different vs. what you're suggesting? You're just adding this complicated tooling piecemeal after getting annoyed instead of before 3. Just ignore cruft until it annoys you? What's the downside of it otherwise existing? And understanding can be gained from reading the docs/blogs like this, for example, "zsh-syntax-highlighting - Highlights the commands you type to tell you if its valid or not." Does this not answer "why"?