The answer to that reply is you don't need to explain it to your users. People are used to fuzzy/best-effort sort of matching, especially when it's specifically presented as a "matching algorithm" instead of a "filter".

I can't believe you're the first person I find in this conversation who raises this issue. This is the exact reason why Marcan flipped his lid. Linus publicly championed a very technically complex initiative and then left all those contributors to the wolves when things didn't progress without a hiccup. Especially damning when you consider that at every step, the fief lords in Linux have seemingly done everything in their power to set up the r4l people for failure and Linus hasn't so much as squeaked at them. He personally cut the knot and asserted that Rust is Linux's future, but he constantly allows those below him to relitigate the issue with new contributors (who can't fight back because even though they're contributing by the supposed rules, they don't have enough social buy-in).

I have a few projects that I've abandoned because they only made sense as a FOSS project, and I saw how FOSS maintainers were being treated. I love FOSS, I love the philosophy, and I would love to "give back" one day by making the ecosystem richer, but I've not yet found a project that I love enough to be abused over.

Yes yes and a reminder that BSD Jails are better than anything Linux does and a bunch of other dead horses we like beating on the regular around here.

Which is a fanciful way of saying that I don't understand the relevance of your comment at all to the topic at hand, which is an interactive frontend.

Ah yes, famously one can only be a sysadmin if they're unable to use a different cli verb order.

Come on now. Either present a real argument or accept the fact that tooling isn't forever going to be frozen to what you used in your 20's. Newer tooling uses newer best practices and the improved verb order is part of that.