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> GUIs tend to be made for the non-technical iPhone audience.

Except for, you know, every serious professional application ever.

Yeah. This is Unix nerd bs and toxic behavior and silly belief that only terminals deliver complex behavior.

I was visiting a radio test lab in last February for our new product. They use a professional software which was written in WPF. The assistant there was flying with the keyboard shortcuts.

I recommend every self-describing Unix or terminal fan to watch videos of photo or video editors / VFX people on YouTube. They are hella fast.

Absolutely true. But the OPs statement is not without merit. While there is a lot of professional software for which GUI is the correct choice, there is also a lot of "GUI slop" which is just a GUI to look good on marketing and to be easier to onboard new users at the expense of long term effectiveness.

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