> Like what command is it for help 'h' or 'h?' or 'help' or 'H'?
It's all about smart desing of commands. In your example all of those options could work, plus options like 'he', 'hel', 'help', 'help!!!', 'Help???', and even 'HALP' or 'WTF?'. Combine this with smart autocomplete, and good hints (i.e. I don't understand 'hlp'. Did you mean 'help') and you can mitigate the drawbacks of CLI commands greatly.
As for Gmail, you are talking here about keyboard shortcuts, NOT commands, and that's something I completely different IMO.
Thank you for sharing this. Your story actually made me think about myself - whether I am actually doing something because I believe it's best for company goals, or I am doing something because I want my work to be visible and viewed as valuable.
I work in a very small team, where promotions don't exist, but I am more aware now, that I often try to work on taks which are more easily recognizable as "wow you did something cool", instead of focusing on quality of code and work. And that's just because I fear to seen as a slacker.
