Good interface design absolutely does not require a gui. When I first encountered a BSD distro that used ports, that was a huge interface improvement. Then Deb

Good interface design absolutely does not require a gui. When I first encountered a BSD distro that used ports, that was a huge interface improvement. Then Deb or whatever beyond that. Using sane labels and coherent layouts isn't dumbing anything down. You can make things easier for humans while having sane interfaces for scripting. Redirecting the output of `ls` and similar commands automatically change the layout to something easy for cli i/o manipulation. We realized long long ago that the API and human-facing interfaces are often better when separated, which is why I don't browse the web with curl... or maybe telnet.