I think you're actually right about terminals, per se. The path dependant complexity of standards (and lack there of) on the web seems spiritually similar to t

I think you're actually right about terminals, per se. The path dependant complexity of standards (and lack there of) on the web seems spiritually similar to terminfo. The step to CLI, however, doesn't seem well supported. I think the conversational interface has a lot of benefits beyond "easy to make it work in a terminal", although how applicable those benefits are to a particular task varies, as does how well those benefits are actually served by a particular system.