technology

I have used a lot of terrible GUIs in my day, for sure. A lot of nonsense that makes me really want some of those nicer TUIs, for sure. My issue is with the programs that don't tell you what the options are and you just have to know the right commands and switches, not the nice interfaces that do the best they can with the technology and give you a list of options and a relatively simple way to select one. Unfortunately, that first type is the vast majority of stuff that you have to use a terminal for in the first place. And if similar programs with a nicer terminal interface exist, finding them is the exact same discoverability problem as figuring out the commands to use, because generally you have either a popular but not great GUI for it, findable via searching online and seeing people recommend it on a tech forum and then having to find it, or people who go on and on that it doesn't need a better interface, just look up the commands whenever you need to use it (and the oddball CLI junkies who think memorizing all the commands you often need is a mark of competency in computer usage, and easier interfaces were a mistake that lets idiots use computers). And I find even a terrible GUI less annoying than having to do that every time and flip between the terminal window and a web browser.