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You get GUI niceties: a nice presentation of the output like inline markdown rendering including tables and images in a nice font. Input supports drag & drop, and I can actually navigate the input field the way I am used to (pointing and clicking, using keyboard shortcuts to jump to beginning of words / sentences). Not sure what the most modern CLIs support, but for me just the ergonomics of a GUI text field alone are superior.

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I guess to each their own, as I find the GUIs to be clunky and a net negative to my workflow. Admittedly, I should give them another chance, and see how they have matured lately.

I'm a long-time CLI/TUI lover, but the Codex GUI has converted me for at least this use case. It has most of the positives of a TUI plus some that would be hard in a TUI.

Codex CLI has support for keybindings tho last time I checked they were quite limited and you cannot replicate full universal text editing experience.

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