You are in a box

Tools often bloat as users cling to them, terrified of steep costs. Ripgrep and the classic GNU grep syntax point the way to easier transitions—if we bothered to notice. Simpler shell workflows beckon us. But beware the tug-of-war: unstructured IPC flounders without a schema, and PowerShell can't get its protocols to play nice. Welcome to the high-wire act!