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Project idea: ML-based snafu-avoider that prompts for confirmation when past invocations by other users in the community of that command resulted in manifestations of regret[1].

[1]: screaming picked up by mic; detected maniacal CTRL-C'ing as immediate as it is futile; permanent loss of peer relationship to the project's cloud (indicating subsequent reformatting and/or booting-off-tall-building)

I use bmaptool for that. It shows progress and prevents writing to mounted volumes.

Latest versions of dd support the argument "status=progress" for displaying the average write speed while running.