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Hmm, Not really convinced. I like TUIs and also the aesthetic of them.

Much faster to use on a keyboard than point clicking all over the place with a mouse on the screen or typing the long commands and flags and forgetting a single flag and having to typing it once again.

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If you forget a flag, can't you move your cursor and add the flag? No need to type the whole command again

If your terminal is using readline/emacs bindings, Meta + B will go backward one word. Ctrl + a will move the cursor to the beginning of the line. There are of course equivalents if your terminal is configured to use the vi/vim keybinds.

On macOS, you can hold Option and click to emulate the correct amount of left or right arrow presses to move the cursor.

So, no, you don't need to type the whole command again. I would personally probably hit Ctrl + a and move my cursor forward a few words to where I need to add the flag.

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