First bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don’t need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.
Use an archiving format that does both at once then, preserving whatever tar use cases has and compressing. The two steps are stupid, no arguing against that.
I mean xz/7z has kind of been the way for at least a decade now
Well, tar.zstd is starting to be the thing now.
First bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don’t need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.
Slower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.
Use an archiving format that does both at once then, preserving whatever tar use cases has and compressing. The two steps are stupid, no arguing against that.