One line that demonstrates the agony and the ecstasy of simplicity: $ man ls | grep "\-\w," | wc -l

On the one hand, beautiful, recursive composability of small, universal tools.

On the other hand, the tool we're introspecting is 'ls'. If we truly valued simplicity, ls would have no flags - you would pass its output to awk to extract the data you want.

A more thoughtful writeup: https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/