I think it's more a compatibility thing than an original desire for more CLI. All that deployment tooling built on top of scp, protocols like git over ssh. With

I think it's more a compatibility thing than an original desire for more CLI. All that deployment tooling built on top of scp, protocols like git over ssh. Without ssh, Microsoft would forever be out of that game. Those things are definitely not "not CLI", but the CLI question is not in focus.