Comment by MontyCarloHall

>some of the default tooling feels dated: GNU coreutils and friends are often stuck around mid-2000s versions

That’s because they’re not GNU coreutils, they’re BSD coreutils, which are spartan by design. (FWIW, this is one of my theories for why Linux/GNU dominated BSD: the default user experience of the former is just so much richer, even though the system architecture of the latter is arguably superior.)