How is GNU software worse

if it has more features? It's not like the old features go away.

Bloating ls and grep with pretty colors and such pays dividends for interactive use, so I don't mind it.
Of course this is only true if the default colours make sense. Dark blue on a black terminal screen? WTF were they thinking.

Since I can never remember what the colours mean anyway, I just alias it to add -l and disable any colouration. I'm also not fond of my directory listings looking like some kid's drawing.