feels like the right thing here is for the library present a declarative API ("i need these pieces of info of this kind") and then have separate GUI and TUI bac

feels like the right thing here is for the library present a declarative API ("i need these pieces of info of this kind") and then have separate GUI and TUI backends, with the ability to override the rendering options for either but, yeah, that kind of thing always sounds great in theory, but is always ridiculously hard to get right in practice