[PurpleRamen]

GDS suck because of compability. Compability to decade old systems and workers, and compability to evertything and anything. The first GDS where 40-50 years ago created, under the stress of very limited resources, aimed for very specific handling. In that time, workflows and concepts were established and brought into productions, which are still used today.

If you think unix-commandline is cryptic in it's usage, then you should try gds-commands, which are often optimized to the single characters. Today you can use XML and JSON, but they are only build on top of those old systems, leading to many old crafty things.