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> (...) underpowered, user hostile design that requires lots of unnecessary memorization.

User hostile I can understand. Underpowered is just plain false. Parsing log files, relating data between them and aggregating results is a common task for any decent sysadmin. I know no interface as powerful (measured as the ratio of information quality over time spent) as the Unix command line.

Many powerful interfaces have ultra steep learning curves. The Unix shell is one of them. Steep learning curves are a flaw, of course, but they do not invalidate the other qualities of the interface.