1. When working at the computer, I read from Pocket
(or Kindle Cloud Reader), and
2. After hours, I read only my Kindle Paperwhite.
The discovery and delivery for me: - Stream RSS feeds (HN[*], Xkcd, local news, etc.) to Pocket
(possible with IFTTT)
- Add links from coworkers to Pocket
- Buy books for Kindle
- Subscribe to The Economist[†] weekly on Kindle
- Use Pocket to Kindle nightly[‡]
p2k creates an e-book from random unread articles in Pocket
archives them, then delivers to Kindle at a set time.
So, in the evenings on my Kindle, I have a mix of articles to read from Pocket (delivered at 5pm) and The Economist, plus other books, but much less rabbit-trail browsing and wandering the web.
From a mile high view, the thing that makes step somewhat different is the heavy emphasis on usability and reducing overall complexity of managing your own PKI holistically.
So, even if smallstep is more complete in a feature-for-feature comparison to alternatives, the primary focus on ergonomics and filling the "humanized" tooling gap is why you might pick it over another tool... depending on your needs.
In a sense step is to cfssl/openssl as httpie is to curl. You can accomplish a lot of the same things, but they're at different levels as far as mental tax and overall approachability.