[msgodel]

It's useful if your terminal emulator isn't very good and the scrollback buffer doesn't work. This can happen for any number of reasons.

Or maybe I don't feel like using the mouse, or I want to do something like grep it. There are an unlimited number of reasons I might want that, that's how interfaces like these work.

[rendaw]

Are you saying your terminal emulator can't match on text with ansi color modifiers when searching?

[msgodel]

Are you going to demand it when you write your program? That seems like a regression from most CLIs with bespoke option parsers I've used.