This is exactly right. We hit the same wall. Our solution was to re-imagine Unix at https://linuxtoaster.com https://linuxtoaster.com, and either pipe through j

This is exactly right. We hit the same wall. Our solution was to re-imagine Unix at https://linuxtoaster.com https://linuxtoaster.com, and either pipe through jq etc or just start rewriting tools that do that. A good tool shouldn't be verbose out of laziness, it should be conscious of the information that might be needed by the next step in the pipeline. If deeper information is needed, the user should ask for that, with a command line flag.