Maybe it would be better if people always used cat, always used wc, &c. Sure, performance is better the other way -- but multiplying the functionality of each c

Maybe it would be better if people always used cat, always used wc, &c. Sure, performance is better the other way -- but multiplying the functionality of each command comes at a price, namely that only grognards can do things "the right way". If we instead emphasized the way of distinctly separate commands for distinctly separate things...