In my most charitable assumption, this is just ragebait farming engagement. Nobody would endanger their own safety saying these things in a serious tone. Not in public, anyway.
Basically it's about the "ip" command and some net tools. The rest are a sideshow. And almost all things are both available, or even installed. So.. its a rant in disguise.<p>"stop being old people" ok...<p>meanwhile, over in BSD.. these tools work fine<p>(I do however think tmux is a better choice than screen)
Maybe they are more modern and with more features and so on, but the default user experience absolutely sucks on tmux and ip, which makes using them useless on servers you don't control, and asking to "oh lemme just drop my config here" is just insane as a default.<p>Which is why the older tools don't go away.
A lot of these utilities are still useful in limited environments. OpenWrt routers still use the network based ones, and for most of the others busybox implements them with just a few lines of code. In some cases the simplicity also aids with scripting in the limited environments as well.