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> Consider for a moment what a monumental task it is to make a simple ncurses menu and status bar in bash script.

It really isn't, see e.g. whiptail.

And using ncurses for anything today is not a good idea. Surviving terminals are overwhelmingly ANSI, and can be supported by a single codebase that uses escape sequences directly, wihtout the horrors of ncurses.

[KirinDave]

I have seen whiptail. It's still easier to make a list of selectable options in html or markdown.