[vkou]

> I kinda like using tooling with 40 years of refinement

I would not call the modern terminal the result of 40 years of refinement - mostly for the reasons outlined by the parent poster, as well as those of the sibling posters.

If you look at the modern terminal through fresh eyes, 'buggy and inconsistent and clunky' would be how the average homo sapiens would describe it.

Just because there are reasons for why all of these warts are in place, doesn't mean that the program is not defective, as designed.