[kretaceous]

I opt for colors and "flashiness" whenever there is some output to the terminal which is to be seen by me. That makes it easier to read for me. Of course, this is subjective. Most of these tools disable color output when piped (batcat, etc) which makes it easier to awk/sed them or have an options to turn of colors. Some of these tools are not meant to be piped (nnn).

For tools which require no output (autojumpers, entr, etc.), I prefer lightweight bash scripts or C programs.

Thanks for a reminder of moreutils! I'll definitely have to try vipe as that seems to fit some of my needs.