Earlier quoted context omitted.
Classic UNIX tools are god awful to use in terms of quality of life. Newer tools are far more ergonomically pleasing. The real reason people are hesitant to use new tools is that there is a massive switching cost for most of them.
I find the older utilities are more "ergonomically pleasing" and improve "quality of life" given the generally poor quality of today's software. Indeed the "switching cost" would be high, as I would lose the ergonomic pleasure and quality of life improvement, not to mention the level of efficiency and productivity, I get from the "classic" UNIX utilities.
Completely disagree.
Great example is working with Unix streams instead of objects as in powershell.