Unfortunately, the only time CLI wins out in networking is when there's a cert to dangle in front of people. I'm not sure what world you live in, but in the C

Unfortunately, the only time CLI wins out in networking is when there's a cert to dangle in front of people. I'm not sure what world you live in, but in the Cisco world I don't know anyone who does anything beyond the trivial in the various 'GUIs'. part of that equation is handing projects off to other people to maintain Yes, and I don't know anyone who would hire a Cisco engineer that wasn't fully conversant with the CLI. The idea that something we've been doing, successfully, for decades (handing a text Cisco config to the next engineer) is "basically impossible" is...interesting...and unsupportable in my experience. As is the implied "GUIs are always easier to understand and reason about".