"Better than images & pixels in the terminal would be a GUI platform that is as simple to use and integrate as the terminal and still feels natural to use with

"Better than images & pixels in the terminal would be a GUI platform that is as simple to use and integrate as the terminal and still feels natural to use with the keyboard. And has a toggle for animations." This. What I'd really like is some sort of simple API/structured data standard that tools could implement and then a "generic technical UI" which can automatically generate a UI for that tool. (the UI doesn't have to be pretty or fancy, as long as it lets me quickly and effectively make use of the tools). I think REST endpoints with an OpenAPI definition that automatically lets you generate an HTML documentation with built-in API client goes a bit into that direction. As did Microsoft's idea of "commandlets" I believe. As, actually, did HTML+HTTP in its original inception. However, so far all of those massively fall short in the "allow effective use of the tool" metric: For actual work, it's still way faster and more convenient to make a REST call via curl (once you figured out how to assemble the call!) - than to click around in the OpenAPI client. But maybe some future tool/standard could bring something better to the table here.