Subjective. However, if you can type at a reasonable speed, the terminal is faster than moving a mouse around.
Now, GUI makes more sense for many things. Kinda hard to edit video without a GUI (but if someone has a command-line-driven video rendering editor, let me know - I want to explore this.) Visual programming wouldn't be 'visual' without GUI.
Even common commands have this problem — for example, I don't copy files all that much, so when I do, I frequently forget that cp takes -R instead of -r.
The annoying ones on linux are chmod/chown, they take -R only.
EDIT: it's OS specific in the sense that these programs follow the OS's convention, I expect BusyBox cp, a lightweight Linux version of cp, has the same options as GNU cp
(The gif is a little slow, but you can obviously move through them a fast as you can hit the keys)
Have you heard of one of the most popular visual editor called 'vi' (short form of 'visual')?
But of couse I don't use it. Once you know Emacs well, you won't either. :-)
There is a linear editor called AviSynth that's relatively popular and very Windows-based.
Wait, does anyone actually use the aalib output? I thought it was a joke.
Straight up.
apt-get /pip /equivalents are all astonishingly efficient methods of installing programs. Have seen many non-tech inclined people change their mind quickly once being exposed to it.
Perhaps we should be asking people to try first? A gui is a necessity in certain situations, but it shouldn't be lore.
Demand more and you will get more.