Can you elaborate on the unusability of Terminal.app?
It's one of my most used apps and I have no issue with it.
Also, I didn't know many of these until recently:
It's one of my most used apps and I have no issue with it.
Also, I didn't know many of these until recently:
So the contrast is to bright, there is no tabs either from what I remember, The font itself looks bad, is not anti-aliased and also everything is way too small by default. It looks like some kind of 80's monitor that got somehow transformed into an app.
Actually, to find this image I just typed "osx terminal.app" on Google and the first two results where already to replace it with another alternative so I don't think it's really popular.
I came to OS X in 2006 (grad school, prior laptop had just kicked the bucket, a new battery was a couple hundred, and it was dog slow anyways being a ~2003 laptop three years later (hardware moved much faster back then)). So that was OS X 10.4. Terminal.app suited me just fine. The default was indeed ugly, but that was quickly remedied. I don't recall when they got tabs, but as a screen (now tmux) guy, that never bothered me. I've personally never understood the desire for multiple tabs when a better solution existed that didn't take up big chunks of your (especially on a laptop) limited screen real estate.
http://i.imgur.com/JPSgL9K.png
contrast: perfect
font: pretty good
anti-aliased: yes
size: not way too small
tabs: yes
Really, the only reason I use iTerm instead of Terminal is because TotalTerminal dropped support for newer versions of macOS.