Yeah but `tar xvzf archive.tgz` also works so I remain wary of tar. Basically every time I have tried to do something that's not tfz or cfz or xfz, it went wrong until I checked the manpage.

speaking of `man`, why can't it be more like `tldr`?

I personally wouldn't touch that, but that's related to my allergies to JS ecosystem and predisposition to panic attacks when I see stuff like that https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/package-lock.....