[jchw]

The interpretation here is implying that this GUI exists to demonstrate good GUI design. It instead exists to demonstrate what it would look like if you directly mapped the APIs of OpenSSL into a GUI 1:1. This is not the ideal way to do that, of course, but I would argue that with really good APIs, if you did do something like that, it would wind up being quite passable.

How openssl is today is probably not so bad for what it is, though. The GUI design here might be doing it a disservice by intentionally not having as much hierarchy. But this is actually a really bad argument for why CLIs are better. That’d be like arguing that closets are better for organization than shelves because when you haphazardly throw everything from your shelves into your closet, your room looks cleaner when the closet door is shut.