It's easy to fall in love with someone who is young, hip and all that. When it comes done to work on my loved UNIX systems though, I still prefer to stay with the old-school tools given by coreutils et. al. They are a quasi-standard, I can rely on them and I always know what to expect. Better yet, I will find them on every system and can reduce my mental load to learn and internalize something new. Sure, they're not perfect, but these advantages trump the disadvantages, and it's all worked out pretty well for decades. Here, I don't have to chase the next bride.
I can say exactly the opposite and I have the collection of shell scripts to prove it -- the newish tools work better for me when doing a ton of scripting tasks.
So maybe don't project about "hip" or "young" because it does your otherwise decent argument a disservice.
