I understand the confusion! cmdk is complementary, not competitive, to the built-in fzf shortcuts (I use both cmdk and built-in fzf shortcuts in my day-to-day).

The concrete value-adds of cmdk (what fzf doesn't do out of the box):

1. Smart previews. You have to write the fzf preview command to preview text files, directories, images, PDFs, etc. cmdk gives you this out of the box.

2. Choose the command for you. If you rely on the fzf Ctrl-T shortcut, you have to type the `cd`, the `vim`, the `open`, etc. I find that most of the time the command is predictable based on the filetype, so cmdk allows you to skip this. When cmdk doesn't have a command for the filetype though, I supplement with fzf's Ctrl-T.

3. Be smart about which files you're searching to be performant. E.g. very likely users aren't going to jump to files in the "~/Library/Application Support", or certain system directories under "/", so give users the option to go to the parent directory without crawling the subdirectories.