That monstrosity is easily one of the two most popular reasons cited by folks as being the reason why they use/like ripgrep. (With the other reason being performance.)
Orthogality is a means to an end, not an end itself.
because it suits the pragmatic 90% case and not some "what if" scenario. It has quite adequately outlined what files it does search and also how to overcome the defaults. If you use CLI you can use --help as well and get the other options.
