It should be a huge embarrasment to the designers. They survive on low price and unique features. It would be quite amazing to have a CLI without the nonsense.

That ship sailed years ago. Even though the legal precedent was set after Cisco vs Arista that CLI elements that are of common , standard usage aren't copyrightable, nobody wants to take the risk. So they come up with other ways that tend to be not good.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net> wrote:

Mark Tinka [mark@tinka.africa] wrote:
>
> It is not terribly clever of Mikrotik to have two commands that do different
> things be that close in syntax.
>

It should be a huge embarrasment to the designers. They survive on low price and unique features. It would be quite amazing to have a CLI without the nonsense.