The extensivisity is part of the problem - you don't want paragraphs upon paragraphs, you often just want a short reminder as to which option is which.
But so many programs have decent built in "help" now it's not as big a deal - I remember when ls --help would just return every possible valid option on one big line ... which now Google does for us: https://www.google.com/search?q=ls+options
But so many programs have decent built in "help" now it's not as big a deal - I remember when ls --help would just return every possible valid option on one big line ... which now Google does for us: https://www.google.com/search?q=ls+options
ls -1AacCdeFilnpLRrSsTtuvwxXhk FILE... indeed