Comment by anticorporate

GUI tools were better in the 90s when interfaces were more standardized, and I think the "invisibility" factor was a big part of it. I don't want to have to learn a company's whole design philosophy system because they thought building a packaged web app was "cooler" than using a standard widget toolkit. I find myself using the terminal more and more as time goes on, because I find the total friction to be less when things are predictable. I'd probably not have left the GUI world if we were all still using some modern equivalent of user32.dll.