Indeed. What if the cli had both natural language syntax, large alias/synonym matching, and command prediction (eg similar to Gmail's recent feature)? That migh

Indeed. What if the cli had both natural language syntax, large alias/synonym matching, and command prediction (eg similar to Gmail's recent feature)? That might reduce the non-discoverability issue to about the same as most direct manipulation ui (where you have to look through menus for the "right" item to click on).