¯\(°_o)/¯

while read time
do
  if [[ $(grep -r ";_;" ~/*) == "" ]]
  then
    like=0
  fi
done < <(cat this)
if [[ $like != "0" ]]
then like(this)
fi

I think the open source nature has something to do with that.  Lots of different contributers add different utilities, each with their own idea of what the syntax should look like.

It feels like it's what you'd get if you took 1 person for each language there is, stuck them all on an island, then had to decipher what they were saying after 5 years.