> Some might see the expansion of a single compound command into a nearly 200-line script as a sign of everything wrong with modern software development. And, on one hand, that’s a fair point. But, on the other, the result is pretty nice.

I wouldn't call it "everything wrong with modern software development", but I do think that some of the spirit of the Unix philosophy, with small, simple tools that can be composed in gestalt to get something useful, is lost with this solution.

Not to mention that this is a solved problem with the "at" and friends commands.