Plenty of fancy user interfaces do not need to be graphical, but can still benefit from better textual presentation. As for "features", there are very few feat

Plenty of fancy user interfaces do not need to be graphical, but can still benefit from better textual presentation. As for "features", there are very few features in modern terminals that affect display that weren't either present in "actual" terminal hardware several decades ago or are spiritual successors to that. E.g. displaying images in terminals has been a thing since at least 1981, yet a whole lot of terminals haven't supported it until it started getting a bit of a resurgence lately. I don't agree it's not a good direction - GUI's are way too complex for a whole lot of applications, where terminals allow you to output quite advanced things with a handful of lines of code and no external dependencies. If there was a push to make GUI protocols simpler (instead of far more work, as with Wayland) for trivial programs to output, I might be more open to this view.