I feel the synopsis section of man pages often just becomes a bunch of useless garbage above the fold (for instance, look at `man git`).

Using it less as a complete docopts kind of thing and more of multiple common usages (like `man tar` and what you linked) is far more useful.

I think there is something here I hadn't really considered before. It's not an example, but also not a useless dump of flags. Food for thought I suppose.