[cyphar]

The main way you'd be interoperating with ls is through pipelines, and GNU ls doesn't do any pretty-printing of paths when used in a pipeline (besides, arguably the correct way of handling paths that may have newlines or spaces embedded is with `find -print0` but that's a whole different topic). Or is there some other aspect of interoperability you're referring to?

But if we're being honest, path handling (as well as structured data) in shell scripts and pipelines has always been of the largest trash-fires in Unix -- while I don't personally like how Powershell solved the problem on Windows at least they tried to solve it.