Verbosity is wasteful and time-consuming in today's environment as well.
Most people on HN are developers and not as fluent as system engineers in shells and UNIX tools. The need for minimalist, "silent" UIs comes with fluency.
This is also true for network engineers and database administrators.
> The need for minimalist, "silent" UIs comes with fluency.
No, it comes from wanting to reuse the tool!
Would you like your browser to open plenty of pop-ups with messages like "Congratulations! The font XYZ was successfully loaded from C:\foo\bar" or "That's incredible! I looked for a JPEG on server www.qqq.com ... and it was there!"? No, you wouldn't. And I wouldn't like "mv" to babble every time it renames a file on the hard disk.
