I tried using z for a while but I got mad every time I typoed, failed a tab-complete, and ended up in some random directory halfway across my disk instead of doing nothing.

The simplest option usually also comes with all the drawbacks of being the simplest option. "Keep it simple" is one of the more irritating thought-terminating cliches.

As someone working with bitfields and enums-to-ints a lot, you can take ``as`` out of my cold dead hands.

The AI dashes mixed with the manual double hyphen AI dashes makes it likely

Because the curtain-twitching UK public loves this sort of stuff?