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I've seen this a few times, but the one that always gets me are things like aws, it does something in response to "aws --help", but it doesn't tell you that you really want to call "aws help" to get some useful help.

I've seen that pattern before, but it always drives me a little crazy.

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That. And Git’s passive aggressive approach when it kind of knows what you wanted, but will show you how you failed to write that command.

What's the alternative? Accepting the dev's favourite misspelling npm-style doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

No, but a "command not found" would suffice and not hint that it could have figured it out for you.

Alternatively, it could offer a y/n prompt.

I'd rather have the suggestions, I don't take hints from computer software personally :) Sometimes I just misremember a particular command (i.e. "submodule" vs "submodules").

Git has an option to run misspelled commands anyway.

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