That "accumulated baggage" is though not entirely mostly knowledge and progress won through sweat and tears from many mistakes over many lifetimes. There's a r

That "accumulated baggage" is though not entirely mostly knowledge and progress won through sweat and tears from many mistakes over many lifetimes. There's a reason we moved on from paper tape to visual displays, and then from line editors to freeform buffer editors. We didn't abandon paper tape due to "baggage", we did it because it sucked and was inefficient. Though certainly, I agree with studying and learning from history. It doesn't hurt to know how to use ed, especially since it doesn't take long to learn.