[linguae]

I wholeheartedly agree. It seems that there is no middle ground these days between Web- and mobile-inspired GUIs that have taken over the desktop (even in the macOS world) and doing everything via the command line. I feel the same way about GNOME 3's shift to mobile-influenced UI/UX paradigms; sadly this shift also occurred in Windows and macOS.

What I believe is needed are UIs for power users and developers. Nobody stays a novice forever; we need UIs that facilitate the tasks of technically-inclined users, something more ergonomic than CLIs but not oversimplified like modern UIs. Some examples of UI/UX that addresses the needs of power users are support for scriptability (such as AppleScript and Visual Basic for Applications), composability (such as OpenDoc [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E]), WordPerfect's Reveal Codes that allow writers more fine-grained control over formatting, and a demo I saw of Symbolics Genera where the CLI shell assists the user in completing the command (see https://youtu.be/7RNbIEJvjUA?t=380 for a demo of how that interfaced worked; while it's a CLI shell, it's much more ergonomic than any Unix shell I've seen). I would like to see more UIs that fit the needs of power users.