I’m 56 years old and have been using Unix (and almost every derivative) since I was 16 — that’s 40 years. I’m OK with this change. it’s only a feature of ls(1) and it doesn’t wrap the filename in quotes if stdout is not a tty. Seems like nothing breaks here.

I have seen long filenames with spaces in them in ls output where I could not tell where the filename started and stopped (because of the column output or wide output format that I used at the time). So I switched to ‘ls -l’ to get the long format and I can see then, but it was an additional step that this change makes unnecessary now. I see this as a good change.