Exactly, and its something happening all the time and many people seem to like it. If not, everyone would be using Linux Desktops vs OSX/Windows, vim/emacs vs S

Exactly, and its something happening all the time and many people seem to like it. If not, everyone would be using Linux Desktops vs OSX/Windows, vim/emacs vs Sublime/Textmate/an IDE, plain ruby/python/etc vs Rails/Django/etc, OpenGL/DirectX vs Unity/any Game Engine etc. Even in the consumer world, this is Apples strongest selling point for example. Make products simple and easy to use, but still do 90% of what anyone would want to do with it. If that isnt enough, there are other things to use. I think the same can be said over replace. I find your skills with sed/grep impressive and its certainly very useful in some cases (mostly devOps) but in case i need it myself i would just look it up and in the meantime use simpler tools and get the job done.