> GNU userland and unneeded complexity (e.g. more features than any user will ever use) are practically synonymous.

Ahhhh, the memories. These accusations bring me back to the early 1990's. Remember? Remember how it was? Oh, boy, how did we all get so old? To be young and running System V again...

And still today, whenever I'm faced on a system without GNU utilities, I find myself installing them to get what seems to me like basic functionality. We have never changed, have we?