I highly doubt this would be the case. Well designed GUI's makes learning software significantly easier than without GUIs. Just imagine going to a chemical pla

I highly doubt this would be the case. Well designed GUI's makes learning software significantly easier than without GUIs. Just imagine going to a chemical plant that makes fertilizer. Now imagine you have an operator that stares at 5 or 6 screens showing each IO process for making said paper. From the drying process, to the chemical rxns, heat, temp, water, pressure ,etc. Its a complex system to understand, and GUI's make it easier to break down. Take away the GUI and throw in all python REPL and CLI. Things will go to shit so fast. Plants will shut down. Operators will need to be retrained and paid more to understand the inner workings of what the GUI was doing. Thats not to say that CLI and REPL are necessarily worst than their GUI counterpart. A good example where CLI and REPL are significantlly better than its GUI counterpart outside of programming would be AutoCAD (AutoDesk). Any competent architect uses a list of well known shortcut hotkey commands, through its CLI. Such as "M" for move an object, "O" for offseting a line. It takes way longer to use a GUI to do this. Arguably, some common GUI interfaces for programming like GIT makes it much easier to do things, like branch off, rebase, merge, and pull. I personally prefer Atom's built in GUI, or even a possible stand-alone, as I simply cannot remember every GIT command when I need too. Just the most common ones. Lastly, windows/mac VS Linux. Its thanks to the GUI-based systems in windows/mac that make it much more popular and appealing to programmers and nonprogrammers a like, for focusing on things that actually matter (Business functions, persona life, etc).