[dragonwriter]

> and there’s hardly any defense for a GUI application putting all common settings in a text configuration, especially when you need to configure colors, fonts, etc.

It's a good place for them to be stored; it's not a great UI, but that is a thing that can be built over any storage and there is a reason it's v0.10 and not v1.0.

> I’m pretty sure the terminal app was advertised as the next generation console experience for Windows, which means it is going to replace cmd

ConHost. Cmd is a command interpreter that runs in a console, not a console itself.

> and will be used by non-power users.

Eventually, sure. It's very much a power-user-focussed preview today, though.