Re: That extra [Y] - unacceptable.
How many times do you blindly answer 'OK' or 'Y' or... how often has it saved you? right, it's just an annoyance. It works the first few times you encounter it and thereafter it just gets in the way. If you're gonna mess up, that extra prompt is likely to save you only if you've never seen it before and maybe not even then. The only way to protect against something like 'rm -r' is to simply not have that feature. But it would be too painful to live without. That's why we have backups...
Have fun,
Carl Forde