This is just an example of poor GUI design. The author didn't make any attempt to think of user experience and just mechanically converted OpenSSL CLI options i

This is just an example of poor GUI design. The author didn't make any attempt to think of user experience and just mechanically converted OpenSSL CLI options into widgets. This is not how one does GUI design [1]. For example, let's take "Input format" switch. Our computers can do billions of calculations per second, cannot they determine file format automatically? And show a warning if the format doesn't match file extension? Or let's look at checkboxes, determining which information should be displayed: "print serial number" and so on. Cannot a program just display all important information at once without toggling any checkboxes? Of course, CLI interface is good for using in scripts. But not every CLI program matches that purpose: utilities intended for use in scripts should output data in machine-friendly format like CSV or JSON or TOML or even specially invented CLIML, but not in plain text. Otherwise scripts will break every time they stumble upon a filename with spaces. Sadly, despite decades of evolution, many CLI programs are not machine-friendly yet. I use openssl maybe once a month or once a year and I cannot remember a single option. I would rather prefer to type "crypttool /some/file.pem" than spend time finding out which options I need to specify. And obviously if I had to manage a company-wide PKI with its own CA I would definitely prefer a well designed GUI tool. [1] Please note that I am not a designer. I just learn things by observing other people's work.