Comment by zahlman

Doing GUI on web is obnoxious for people who want to stay offline for things that clearly don't benefit from a network connection (and where a network connection can really only introduce dark patterns). TFA is all about how GUIs should do the things that TUIs just do natively. If you don't like the aesthetic, it's just an aesthetic after all. If you want to use the mouse, you typically can in TUIs.

CLI pipelines are obviously not a real solution to, for example, arbitrary text editing, especially if you don't know what you want to change until you see the text.