You should see my git aliases that makes heavy use of fzf. It definitely speeds me up. `ga` gives an fzf-powered selection only on files in my git status to `git add`. I can cherry pick commits without ever typing a branch or commit hash. Fuzzy-find on reverse search with fzf is way better than the built-in ctrl+r. ripgrep is way better than grep. I could go on.

I appreciate your call to be familiar with the core unix experience, but the unix userland is definitely enriched by these newfangled tools.