I really enjoy using most programs in that list, but using the words "modern" or "replacements" to describe them is inaccurate. Most of the programs in that list are indeed more pleasant to interact with, but they simply don't have the same purpose as the programs they're compared against.

For example, bat is a program designed for human interaction, but its output isn't meant to be piped into anything as opposed to cat. Similarly, exa and lsd are fine for human interaction but their outputs aren't meant to be parsed, and same goes on for most of the programs present in that list.

Hence the proposition to replace "modern" with "human-friendly", and presenting them as alternatives rather than replacements.