The key here, I believe, is that CLIs are still vastly more productive for purposes on which you're familiar with the pertinent commands; GUIs are generally bet

The key here, I believe, is that CLIs are still vastly more productive for purposes on which you're familiar with the pertinent commands; GUIs are generally better for discovery of new functionality and one-off tasks. Chatbots and NL interfaces in general are thus far a failure because they neither improve on these purposes nor provide a third, unique benefit. I could see them being useful for consolidation of services (instead of comparing eight puzza places' sites, go to one third-party pizza chatbot), but there's a very, very long way to go.