I get that. But it's like complaining why your pliers aren't good at unscrewing a bolt. I'm willing to accept the UX isn't great but `tail -f | grep` is like `vim | grep` or `rogue | grep` (I'm exaggerating to try and make a point). `tail -f` is also if I'm not mistaken a much more recent development vs. the origins of the Unix command line pipes.

So sure, it would maybe be a better UX to be able to combine things and have them work, but there is fundamental tension between building something that's optimized for moving chunks of data and building things that's interactive. And trying to force one into the other, in my humble opinion, is not the solution.