Optimising the addition of a few flags to a command is alin to optimising the length of variable names. I find that typing out flags gives me plenty of time to think about what I am doing anyway.
Yes, nothing says productivity like spending half and hour to find the right flags every time you need to use something outside the most common unix userland...
or getting them subtly wrong in some production shell script...
or getting them subtly wrong in some production shell script...