The larger assumption, I think, is that people will know precisely what they want to do. How many people sit down to fire up some music and know exactly what t

The larger assumption, I think, is that people will know precisely what they want to do. How many people sit down to fire up some music and know exactly what they want to listen to? One could trivially add a "list playlists" concept or "list country" or "browse artists" for the uninspired listener. But how many users prefer text to GUI for that sort of browsing/discovery experience? To say nothing of the additional inefficiency generated by typing in what is now clearly going to be a total of several commands in many, if not most, cases. I find the command line superior to the GUI for exactly one thing: firing off specific commands. As soon as you step outside of that, its advantages wane and disadvantages take over. And it's an unfortunately-common mistake of technical users, to only consider use cases where the user knows precisely what they want to do and executes the process correctly.