That's terrible - especially the part about the boss who cares more about toys than productivity and delivery. I hope you can find a way to demonstrate your skills to a talented team who in turn can offer sane working conditions.
It is terrible, but very common in my experience. It is the success recipe for Apple to a large degree.
Software houses are something different, but if you change to another industry as inhouse dev, the priorities change drastically. It has advantages and disadvantages, but in industry jobs outside of software people just cannot really evaluate the quality of your work. It just needs to look shiny to a degree.
You can, actually, but few companies bother to do it.
There are quite a few apps with macro functionality, where each GUI option is also a command and you can record those commands.
I imagine they have too few users who use that functionality so that's why they're so rare.
Xerox Computing / Lisp Machines >>>> UNIX CLI
My affinity for CLI boils down to Powershell capabilities over classical UNIX shells, including having a REPL and debugger.
the "only" really does imply that for me.