[warmfuzzykitten]

I disagree. This is not a "fix" it's an incompatible change to a widely used option for no better reason than a programmer thought the different behavior would be a useful addition to grep.

And yes, we have to continue with an ugly bikeshed for the rest of eternity, because a) beauty is highly subjective, and b) the color of the bikeshed is less important than breaking existing software on billions of computers worldwide.