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That's not the same use case. Man is good when you know the command to use but not how. Here the use case is when you know what you want to do but not how.

Man is a terrible tool for quickly remembering how to do something I do once in a while. The examples—usually the most important part—are usually at the very bottom, if they’re even there.

Agree, for this very reason I found tldr to be very useful (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr)

If you know something is at the bottom of the output, Shift-G is your friend.

I also tend to believe that if you read the options enough you'll be more likely to remember it.

I use man all the time for exactly this. In fact it is something man really excels at.

The other nice thing about looking up options in the man pages is that you often see other useful options that you didn't know existed. I've found some of my favourite options this way!

Closer is `apropos` which uses an index of installed man pages.