Ncurses is just a crappy GUI toolkit. For local work, vast majority of the benefits of using ncurses based applications over X11 ones are cultural and not tech

Ncurses is just a crappy GUI toolkit. For local work, vast majority of the benefits of using ncurses based applications over X11 ones are cultural and not technical. In similar vein using terminal vim over gvim, or using tmux over just tiling wm does not really gain you much.