Comment by mike_hock

> good luck editing a photo with CLI tools

Or good luck editing text with CLI tools, for that matter.

Obviously, those need an interactive UI.

> to your point i think there is a lot of merit to having CLI-first development, where if it can be done in a CLI then do it in a CLI. if a GUI is to be built as an assistance tool, great, but let the actions map to commands that could be saved and re-run

And this is probably why CLIs suck less in practice because the development effort isn't diluted by building multiple frontends.