Except for filters like jq, most of those modern tools are not scriptable. They are just TUI (like bottom and gtop) or pretty printers (like bat), that should not be used in a pipeline, but should be used alone in an interactive shell.

There's, however, a new type of filter that are in vogue nowadays: interactive filters. Utilities like dmenu(1), fzf(1) and pick(1) that, rather than process their input and generate an output, let the user do that. Interactive filters are something new and a pretty much unexplored domain of utilities.