Comment by throw10920

These changes are meant to make it easier to read and understand command-line incantations (and to make them more explicit, which is always good), because the command-line paradigm, being text-based, imposes an unavoidable trade-off between ergonomics and understandability/ease-of-use. It sounds like you prefer ergonomics - although I wouldn't be surprised if most users would prefer ease-of-use.

Of course, if one doesn't write a CLI to begin with, this trade-off doesn't exist - you can have your cake and eat it too.