How have we survived without such a feature up to now? It is a common occurrence that whatever Lennart comes up with fulfills several, erm, novel requirements

How have we survived without such a feature up to now? It is a common occurrence that whatever Lennart comes up with fulfills several, erm, novel requirements while not fulfilling some old ones that aren't even mentioned. The parallels to binary logging are there. "Fancy" features that no one asked for - check. Simplicity and thoughtful use of existing functionality (the "full exploitation" principle of the Unix design philosophy) - nope.