Many TUI programs, e.g. Midnight Commander, can use mouse, but are perfectly operable with just a keyboard. Same with Emacs or Vim in terminal mode.
This is more about blending in among GUI tools, which is also important.
This is more about blending in among GUI tools, which is also important.
This is what I find difficult to understand, why is that important? And to whom?
It made sense 35 years ago when MS-DOS was shipped by default and you just had to make do.
A full-featured web browser or a video chat client can't be realistically made TUI. I could have run Emacs in TUI mode, but I appreciate variable font support in non-code texts I write.