I think it's great that someone is questioning the way things have always been done, even it's just by calling it stupid. The hard part is coming up with something better. Unix at its core is still a product of the computing environment of the early 1970s. Not only that, it was a reaction to the complexity of Multics. What gave Unix an advantage at the time was how relatively easy it was to port to other architectures and how few resources it required. Universities and businesses could run it on cheap $50,000 minicomputers. It eventually outgrew a lot of its origins, but still. The rule of silence makes the most sense on a slow terminal or a teletype. Verbosity is wasteful and time-consuming in that environment.