> Half of those examples from git don't even invoke cat
That's because it's a regex search and not relevant to the point at all. What matters is that people use widely advertised features of a popular tool, including sudo and cat. Especially if that feature is the single stated purpose of the tool.
Taking a name of a widely used tool and slapping it on something that doesn't even do what the original was made for isn't a nice thing to do. I don't get why that's controversial to anyone.
> so cat should do one thing
That one thing is con-"cat"-enating files, so to speak. Why should it become something different just to make the name Sudo for Windows appear somehow less misleading?
Also,
rm out.txt
for f in *.log; do cat "$f" >> out.txt; done
is a clunky way of concatenating files.
{ for f in *.log; do cat "$f"; done; } | less
Even clunkier.
