Seems similar in intent to choose (https://github.com/theryangeary/choose) as a cut which doesn't suck. The features outlined are very close, I just don't understand what "can split text into lines" is, do you mean that the selected fields can be split into lines?
The main advantage of tuc seems to be "templated" outputs.
It's also very similar to my tool hck (https://github.com/sstadick/hck) which is in turn similar to choose, just faster, supports compression, and supports column selection via matching headers.