I'm so often doing stuff on remote servers that I don't want to rely on GUI tools for my daily work. Also, GUI tools almost always expect you to use the mouse,

I'm so often doing stuff on remote servers that I don't want to rely on GUI tools for my daily work. Also, GUI tools almost always expect you to use the mouse, which I prefer to avoid. But I do often use Emacs Magit which gives me most of the benefits you mention over the CLI.