[cykros]

There's something to be said perhaps for preferring tools that do one of those things, rather than all of those things, and doing them well.

Not to say you can't then make an umbrella interface for interacting with them all as a suite, but perhaps the issue has become that gpg has not appropriately followed the Unix philosophy to begin with.

Not that I've got the solution for you. Just calling out the nature of your demands somewhat being at odds with a key design principle that made Unix and Unix-likes great to begin with.