Have a look at QGIS if you can. For me they really achieved the perfect balance. Some task are a hundred time easier with GUI like refining layout and trying ou

Have a look at QGIS if you can. For me they really achieved the perfect balance. Some task are a hundred time easier with GUI like refining layout and trying out graphical style. But you can use variable and formulaes pretty much everywhere to override manual control using data defined attributes. And when you need to you can run the application without GUI for heavy scripting. But still the two approach are fully compatible so you can easily define a layout with the GUI and reuse it via CLI for instance. Maybe it’s common and I’m just a goof but this software workflow really impress me.