[kitschyred]

> Talk about bad UX.

I think you could say this for CLIs in general. While we can all agree that the CLI is great for tasks that require repetition; it's just a PITA for any one-time task. When you just need to do something once and as soon as possible, the manual-help-type-run loop gets tiresome quickly.

Passing options to a program so it can do what most users would want it to do in the first place is nonsensical, and yet that describes the behaviour of many if not all of *nix's tools. It should be the other way around: do what is expected by default, and provide options for different, more uncommon use-cases. Though I suppose this is also a form of baggage from the past that it's very difficult to get rid off because of backwards compatibility.