I'm with you, but want to add that this transition isn't the fault of GUIs. The group at PARC that invented the GUI that everyone else commercialized had invent

I'm with you, but want to add that this transition isn't the fault of GUIs. The group at PARC that invented the GUI that everyone else commercialized had invented the GUI equivalent of "booting into a BASIC" -- Smalltalk. Which brings me to another point: this divide has gone hand in hand with the idea that parts of a computing system should be universally swappable. But that prevents any "holistic" nature to a computing system, and therefore we get caught up in the idea of individual languages rather than environment and how everything works together.