SQL*Plus

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2009–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with SQL*Plus, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

No up-arrow history retrieval and quirky code editing in the command-line tool2021-09-10
Oracle's sqlplus shell tool is unpleasant to use directly2018-01-26
Practically unusable without the manual, since built-in help is lacking2016-11-11
Command line interface is awful to use, needing a wrapper for basic editing2009-10-10