Yeah, there were a couple good points, but a lot that felt off when I read this article (beyond the fact it was largely LLM-generated).

That said, I will say I personally love an optional --wait flag. I've written so many bash scripts where I have to do the status looping manually when all I want is to just do the operation, then do something else once it's complete. For the most part I'm willing to sacrifice a little control there for simplicity.

I 100% agree with your take on the "Two Way I/O". I hate having to figure out how to coerce tools to give me the right output file when all I want is for them to cleanly write the output to stdout, the progress messages and errors to stderr, and let me deal with how they get redirected. This is a core principle that's existed in CLI tools since forever. Agents and humans are both very capable of stringing together other tools to get the results you want.