The terminal still has and always will have great potential as the glue that holds all computing together. Users refine their skill in a few, interoperable and

The terminal still has and always will have great potential as the glue that holds all computing together. Users refine their skill in a few, interoperable and flexible standard tools, and any command that turns out to be useful can immediately be part of a script that automates and simplifies this task forever. It all hinges not necessarily on more fanciness in the terminal, but on the availability of data to work on, on other systems to open their data to the terminal in some way. Many SAAS tools have no interest or incentive to do that; is the trend going away from data available the terminal? Example, Kibana and Splunk are silos that provide powerful ways to analyze logs - what else could you possible want more? Well, even the most sophisticated logfile queries can be repetitive, and those advanced search patterns could be distilled into a script that follows the user's hunches, add a bit of an ad-hoc regression test, correlate it with data from elsewhere, take user input from log files and use it in automated tests, maybe feed it all into a terminal based statistical analysis tool? I don't see myself doing any of that, the devs want a clickable link to the relevant Kibana and they are getting that. More colors in terminals are nice but is it enough to make a difference?