I suspect some of it is that these interfaces are rapidly gaining adherents (and developers!) whose preference and accustomed usage is more graphically IDE-ish

I suspect some of it is that these interfaces are rapidly gaining adherents (and developers!) whose preference and accustomed usage is more graphically IDE-ish editors. Not everyone lives their life in a terminal window, even amongst devs. (Or so I’m told; I still have days where I don’t bother starting X/Wayland)