People that base what tooling they use around how many characters they have to type instead of how productive it makes them seems common but problematic.
> If it take me twice as long to get to the same solution, I'm ultimately less productive.
Exactly, that's why having to guess command/args and google the man-page is way less productive by a lot. For minimal productivity gains in the time it takes you to type a few characters you've wasted minutes.