What if this is precisely the problem? My guess is that an environment that don't makes you think also tend to discourage learning. This would be sub-optimal in the long term.
More specifically, a GUI environment may be easy to manipulate at first, but if you need anything odd (but dead simple), then you have to find a program to do it for you, or do without it. The CLI, on the other hand, by forcing you to write your commands (suboptimal in the short term), gives you the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could write those 2 or 3 commands in a file so you don't have to type them every time. The next thing you know, you want to automate everything. And you can.
Even more specifically, take me. I use a laptop under Gnu/Linux (for serious work), and a Desktop under Windows (mainly for games and videos). I often download English subtitles for English or American films (I'm not a native speaker). But those subtitles often comes with annotations between brackets for the deaf (things like [Predator growling], [wind blowing]…). I want to get rid of them. That would be one line of sed… But it's for films, and therefore on my Windows desktop. Migrating it to my laptop is tedious, so I haven't written the damn script yet.