I'm guessing that people who cared about the terminal, and CLI in general, moved to other OSes a long time ago. And it's not just a glib answer, that's actually

I'm guessing that people who cared about the terminal, and CLI in general, moved to other OSes a long time ago. And it's not just a glib answer, that's actually why I first gave Linux a real shot as my main system -- to replace Putty with a pretty, transparent terminal window and have all the GNU tools that go with it.