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Yes, absolutely.

Also, as a pet peeve: always read your input from stdin, and if stdin isn't readable, do not assume that if stdout/stderr is a tty you're allowed to use that for input. (This assumption is broken in batch/CI/etc systems where stdout/stderr may be a tty so that a program emits color/etc, while making stdin /dev/null because there's no user interaction possible.)

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TTY queries are written to stdout but read from stdin. That's not user interaction. E.g. if you're system doesn't have ioctl for window size (or you're over a remote serial etc), setting the cursor to the bottom right and asking it's position. Those programs break with no stdin because a tty is inherently bidirectional communication!

Such queries are not universally supported, and a program using them has to be prepared to expect a lack of response to the query. (This is one of many issues with such queries.)

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