Comment by ninetyninenine

It has. I regularly use gui's without command line all the time. Even for dev work believe it or not.

The main issue with GUI's is they take a long ass time to develop and developer workflows and technologies shift epically quickly so it's really hard to evolve a GUI as fast as my workflow evolves. That's why GUI's haven't dominated in the dev world. It's not because GUI's are shit, it's because they take too long to create and customize for a specific workflow and among developers there are millions and millions of workflows.

However if you discount development effort. TUI and GUI at it's core, the TUI is simply one aspect of a GUI. It's a subset and a TUI is definitively worse across every metric.

Your complaint is that you can't find a GUI that fits your workflow. That's all.

Well for me personally I'm able to fit about 70 percent of my workflow into a GUI. Namely jetbrain ides. It requires adaptability. Rather then always having the UI workflow adapt to you, you meet it in the middle and adapt to it a little bit.

For the TUI, you just adapt to one archaic keyboard based workflow no matter how inefficient it is and force of habit carries you the rest of the way. It's like you mastered building houses with tooth picks and EVEN though the brick is a superior building material your years of expertise at building houses out of tooth picks has made you stubborn.