Ok, then you've traded one command with switches for multiple commands each with their own set of switches (and almost certainly following different switch 'standards'). I like systemctl/journalctl for cleaning up that mess, even if it requires me to learn how to use them.
Then you will have an awful salad of separate commands that you have to juggle around. I am all for "UNIX philosophy" within reason; it has its bounds, let us not over-romanticize it.