Verbose is a relative thing. `copy` is an intuitive name, `cp` not so much. Likewise, it's a lot easier to remember how to do something like copy /exclude=* .bak [.work] [.prod] (that space after the asterisk shouldn't be there but markdown) than the equivalent command in a Unix shell, apparently:

$ shopt -s extglob # to enable extglob

$ cp work/!(*.bak) prod/