Maybe. Whether the term "modern" was used or not, my hunch is that the response would be the same, for it is forbidden for one to deign to make these kinds of changes to fundamental Unix commands, and is tantamount to a kind of heresy (never mind that GNU implementations did this all the time wrt. original Unix implementations).
Religion... never cared for it. Re-invent the whole crappy (though still less crappy than alternatives) Unix command line, I say.