I remember being giddy about the potential of Ubiquity to bring the CLI to a wider audience, and bring more power to existing CLI users. Too bad it never played out.
That kind of stuff comes up every so often. I heard rumors in the early 2000s about Microsoft implementing a version of Office that was more commandline oriented (this was when people were getting sick of their "smart" menubar, before the ribbon interface).
My partner is a lawyer and we both agree that the rich text editors are massively killing productivity in the space, where plain text is PLENTY powerful enough. The dumb shit they deal with documents and formatting and PDF's. It's fucking dumb, plain text & markdown for life.