I wrote about hackers too, http://www.dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2023-12-02.txt the gist of that rant is that what you see in hackers is not what's not their screens, but what's in their minds, through a poetic lens.
That's not the goal!
It's intended to be representative of the process of interacting with a computer, not the interface itself. At a time when most viewers had little or no first-hand experience with a computer.
If you showed a CLI then, maybe 1/20 people would understand it, and they'd be bored because they used it everyday at work.
It's like when you're reading a book - you don't think about the words, the concepts and people come to life in your brain. I feel like this is the only movie to get that that happens with computers, too.
If nothing else, it's fascinating from a special effects technical standpoint, for when it was made.