Pride in their ability and job security are two reasons why people may prefer such user interfaces. Some complex user interfaces may also give people the percep

Pride in their ability and job security are two reasons why people may prefer such user interfaces. Some complex user interfaces may also give people the perception of having more control. These statements are incorrect. Command line interfaces (black background, in my case green text instead of the article's yellow) often give more control and are more usable than "simple" GUI ones. Especially for complex systems, it becomes unwieldy when a GUI interface tries to provide graphical settings for every supported feature. There are a bajillion tabs and windows, and while the UI designer though of several brilliant one word descriptions for each settings section/tab, of course they're not completely accurate for the setting which you're looking, and you end up flipping through way to many tabs/windows.