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you might be (unintentionally) conflating CLI tools with TUI ones.

CLI by and large treat the terminal as something to read/write lines to, with maybe some rudimentary interaction support like redrawing the same line for a progress bar etc.

TUI use the various positioning and mode configuration escape sequences of the terminal to (typically) display "full-screen" applications within a terminal.

Vim/Emacs would be obvious examples, or any of the Curses-based menu-ish systems.

Try piping vim (not in batch mode) to a pager, and it doesn't really know what to do.

There is some middle-ground, Github's `gh' command will use a TUI-lite interactive menu prompts for various parameters if omitted, but can run non-interactively and be piped / folded / mutilated etc if the appropriate args are given.