Your GUI often includes shortcuts (e.g. to your "work" folder) and that functionality is accessed from the command line via symlinks. Your comparison is not re

Your GUI often includes shortcuts (e.g. to your "work" folder) and that functionality is accessed from the command line via symlinks. Your comparison is not really fair. It's significantly faster (at least for me and most people I know) to type "cd ~/relevant-symlink" than it is to take my hands off the keyboard, switch to the mouse, and then go back to home row.