If I cared enough about guis I could implement what the op said in two months by myself with unlimited access to a good coding model, something like qwq.

The issue is training a multi modal model that can make use of said gui.

I don't believe that there is a better general interface than text however so I won't bother.

They absolutely are. I'm somewhat non-technical but I've been using Claude to hack MVPs together for months now.

No amount of repeating is ever, unfortunately, going to get this across; LLMs are founding a new kind of alchemy.

Not in my experience. Used properly an LLM is an immense accelerator. Every time this comes up on HN we get the same debate. There is the side that say LLMs are time wasting toys, and the other which says they are transformative. You need to know how critically ask questions and critique answers to use a search engine effectively. The same is true for an LLM. Once you learn how to pose your questions and the correct level to ask your questions it is a massive accelerator.