But I don't know if this is totally anti-unix; there's something more subtle, unix systems try to have a "proper layering" of tools, starting with high-level stuff like compilers and languages, sitting atop utility programs and shell, which ultimately sit on an OS kernel that offers its own similar layering of complexity, with simple and clean primitives at the very bottom (files, sockets, etc).

Working within this ecosystem of OS/libs/tools, you can compose any particular solution in a wide variety of ways, there's usually more than one "right way" to solve a problem. But the pieces you build your solution upon are generally more and more specialized/single-purpose as you move down the stack.