Article note: This is a ...narrow... view. Most modern unix-like systems are absolutely lousy with binaries that behave differently when called with different names.
All the common preboot environments and small embedded linuxes have a busybox type thing where _one binary_ provides most of the POSIX environment via symlinked names. Etc.
It’s my belief that history is a wheel. “Inconsistency is my very essence” -says the wheel- “Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don’t complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away”.