Though, this really kind of fits with the metaphor. Pipes typically just send liquid.

You could have a conduit connector to join a bunch of wires/signals, I suppose. But, realistically, that is a mess always.

Right but you generally have a complex pipe system even with liquids. Sewers send waste to a particular processing facility.

A node editor makes it somewhat less messy.

you aren't wrong, but i wanted to point out that through `tee` and `cat` you can split or merge pipelines, and with FIFOs you can awkwardly create graph cycles