No the problem is to overload utilities with hundreds of options and subcommand languages over the course of decades. The starting point was quick command-line

No the problem is to overload utilities with hundreds of options and subcommand languages over the course of decades. The starting point was quick command-line usage but GNU-style long options are clearly rooted in Elisp/emacs hyphenated-words-verbosity. You can tell it wasn't meant to be like this when typing somecmd -h results in multiple pages of option output where you can't see the forrest for the trees, and the command's manpage similarly loosing its usefulness due to sheer size, and frequently not even containing an EXAMPLES section. If it has a manpage in the first place, rather than linking to a nonexistant texinfo page like was practice for the longest time. All of which make you none the wiser so you go to the web for example usage.