(03-09-2018, 09:09 AM)Steph Wrote: At what point does customization stop being an investment into your productivity, and start stealing productivity?

This is the crux of the question for me.
A lot of the tools/script/wrappers like the ones I mentioned in the OP aren't necessary but are for the eye-candy or to not have to learn the underlying command properly, maybe making it faster at the same time.
Not that there's anything wrong with that but you have to weight if it's worth it to add something on top of what you already have. It's the same kind of thinking about the IDE vs Editor+environment sort of talk, which is probably the reason why it was brought up here.

You can't run away from things you need to do your daily tasks on your machine now it's up to you to choose if you want to build that functionality from scratch or add wrapper around what you already have. I guess there's a balance.
Like jkl said:

(03-09-2018, 08:43 AM)jkl Wrote: A tool that requires me to add a lot of scripts to be sufficiently pleasant will eventually be replaced by one that doesn't.

If the tool gets in the way of your activities and is being unpleasant, that's when I'd start to think more about my usage of it.

It would be nice to hear from someone who uses a lot of those eye-candy and script wrappers tools to hear what they find appealing in them.