> good luck editing a photo with CLI tools Or good luck editing text with CLI tools, for that matter. Obviously, those need an interactive UI. > to your poin

> good luck editing a photo with CLI tools Or good luck editing text with CLI tools, for that matter. Obviously, those need an interactive UI. > to your point i think there is a lot of merit to having CLI-first development, where if it can be done in a CLI then do it in a CLI. if a GUI is to be built as an assistance tool, great, but let the actions map to commands that could be saved and re-run And this is probably why CLIs suck less in practice because the development effort isn't diluted by building multiple frontends.