[protomyth]

Ok, but it has an -f behavior that seems to do the right thing. I don't think I would file a request to add flags that aren't needed.

I'm not being "pedantic", I just don't think there is anything to change.

[acdha]

The idea is that if everyone else is converging on "tail -F" supporting that as an alias means that people's habits & shell scripts just work without modification. That seems worth adding a single line to a switch statement to me.