> Is there any need for _more_ than a command line interface?
Reworded: is there any need to make this harder to access than the equivalent of:
* kube-forwarder + open Chrome to http://localhost:3000
* ssh -L ...
* ngrok ...
We use Web UIs for some things, and cli tools for other things.
My development process usually starts in the terminal, as I am a terminal user and do iterative development there as well as tinkering with system interfaces.
A CLI is the natural first product of my development. Building a web interface is additional work. Also, it's been a decade since I have written any reasonable web frontend.
Granted, it's not a real TUI with curses and stuff, but I like to do some eye-candy with escape sequences. Because I am the most frequent user of my tools and I always like seeing something I deliberately made look good. :)