Already happening my friend. uutils. It is MIT licensed. Funnily, I recall someone had a story at MIT about not liking passwords. I'm sure they were right?
It may be happening in your bubble, yes, but not outside of that. They are not 1:1 replacements at all, with probably logic bugs introduced (see their Issues page) as well (call them regressions). I would not hold my breath if I were you.
Everything else worked well enough for my use case.