This project becomes pretty ridiculous when you realize you can already accomplish the same features with regular ls, if you just bother to read a bit. That means the target audience for this is very junior engineers.
So please drop the dismissive patronizing tone.
It’s obviously not a matter of needing, but of aesthetics and usability, and that’s very much a valid pursuit.
How does dircolors add support to nerdfont?
How does it add different colors to user, group, permissions in the equivalent of ls -l?
Also, dircolors is not included in OS X.