Comment by lemonwaterlime

I use those tools nearly every day. Instead of heavy LSPs and IDEs using the RAM that could be otherwise used, I grep and ctags through my codebase for instant navigation. For deterministic changes if I haven’t already done it in vim, I awk and sed, though usually I do buffer-wide changes in vim for such things. When troubleshooting CLI outputs, especially for binutils and other tools I didn’t write, I still use combinations of awk, sed, and grep.

Not everything is thrown together code churn. Some tools have earned their keep and don’t need to be in the constant spotlight because they do their job silently and effectively for people such as myself on a daily basis.