[reacharavindh]

It's delicate. The noob me chased after new tricks with much more enthusiasm than the current me. Over time, priorities change, and now I just want to get stuff done and for tools to get out of the way. I'd appreciate new tricks that bring quite a lot of benefit to my workflow, but the little tricks I'd rather let fly past me.

If the tools such as base environment changes way too often, I'd be annoyed as well - not because I don't know how to make the colours go away or set up the proper aliases - but the fact that I need to do it and pause my actual work.

[agumonkey]

I totally understand that, I'm not a young mind anymore, and I get that most of these are pointless superficial tricks. I spend most of my days venting about the state of computing (especially since web2.0 came and replaced a lot of stuff with bloated regressions in many offices)

But I considered readline a good addition, not a waste of time and neurons.

ps: I stopped using zsh/fish, my emacs theme is the vanilla theme.. you forget about these 'improvements', for real tasks they don't matter.

[corndoge]

I work half as fast without fish completions. matters to some people

[agumonkey]

Maybe I shouldn't have included this comment after the `pointless superficial tricks` :)

[azinman2]

Fish truly is superior for productivity.

[vermaden]

It has its downsides unfortunately.

[AceJohnny2]

It is one of the saddest self-realizations in my old age that I am no longer excited about learning/perfecting my tools.

But as you say, tools must get out of the way...