Ask HN: What should a kafka CLI tool bring to the table?

Hey guys,

I wanted to get some quick input on an idea of mine.

I use the kafka-console tools (like kafka-console-consumer.sh etc. ) on a daily basis and find them to be lacking some features and Quality-of-Life stuff.

Therefore i have some questions for a pet project of mine:

1) What features are the official kafka cli tools missing for your use cases? Example: I want an estimate on the number of messages in a topic

2) Are there Quality-of-Life improvements you crave? Example: I would like to stop reading at the high watermark.