I do feel that CC sometimes starts doing dumb tasks or asking for approval for things that usually don’t really need it. Like extra syntax checks, or some greps/text parsing basic commands

Exactly. Why do they ask permission for read-only operations?! You either run with --dangerously-skip-permissions or you come back after 30 minutes to find it waiting for permission to run grep. There's no middle ground, at least not that Claude CLI users have access to.