[windward]

It's from 2019, so it's hardly a recent development.

It's also very discoverable if you see it in the wild. You may be surprised that `--` doesn't work, but you won't be surprised `--end-of-options` represents the end of options.

What problem does this actually cause you? What additional complexity has adding this feature added to your development cycle?

[ButlerianJihad]

“Surprised” is not the emotion I would describe when discovering yet another legacy of the insufferable verbosity of EMACS Lisp that the insufferably verbose Stallman loved to spell everything out and create insufferable “new standards” because his autocomplete environment was insufferably superior to everyone else.

[windward]

Well it's a problem that's existed since day one