But then you aren’t just using a text editor anymore. If you’re willing to use programs like zless and zgrep, then you can just as easily use journalctl. And I’ve never lost a logfile before, over many years, so not to discredit your experience but at least in my experience journald has been an upgrade
I mean… zless and zgrep have been a thing since forever ago. And some distros ship with lessopen(?) preinstalled, so it’s seemless.
There are only so many times I’m willing to put up with lost logfile due to a crash. Logrotate wouldn’t do this.
But then you aren’t just using a text editor anymore. If you’re willing to use programs like zless and zgrep, then you can just as easily use journalctl. And I’ve never lost a logfile before, over many years, so not to discredit your experience but at least in my experience journald has been an upgrade