This is something that really upset me going into Tron Ares. I had a blast rewatching Legacy beforehand and picking out somewhat realistic shell commands. Ares ditches a lot of these shell commands in favor of everything being a script. `./start_ares_program`, etc. IIRC, we still see a `systemctl` or two in the movie, but definitely less fun than Legacy.

Weirdly, the shell commands seemed perfectly fine as helper tool scripts (my ~/bin is littered with these to this day) but the syntax highlighting is what exceeded my disbelief.

Are you saying that "everything being a script" is incorrect? If I have to write a series of commands in a shell more than a few times, I script it. No matter how few or how many commands, I always script it. My coworkers give me a hard time about it, but I LOVE my scripts.