> Character cell terminal, and CLI are more popular and mainstream than ever.

By mainstream do you mean the 1% desktop share or in the GNU/Linux world?

Actually it was this PDP-11 mentality one of the reasons I eventually moved back into Windows / Mac OS X worlds.

I had my share of CLI starting with Timex 2068, AmigaDOS, MS-DOS, multiple UNIX flavours in the 80 - 90's, to keep doing it daily in the 21st century.

Xerox PARC REPLs were way more interesting way of interacting with the computer and live in modern IDEs.