[knaik94]

In the context of Dropbox users, I expect the large majority to deal with things like path strings. The entire point of Dropbox was to create a user managed cloud service. Apple has a frustrating habit of shifting the goal post on what a "power user" is. Path strings are literally the same as urls. There's "path" strings on the Dropbox webpage as part of the header when looking at the location of folders, especially nested. I am not sure why you think most ordinary people aren't exposed to it.

I agree with you that the Terminal is faster for some things. But let's take an example of moving the last 10 largest files that I downloaded a week ago, but excluding any .mov files or files larger than 2gb. That's not a "power user" operation. With finder, that's 10 mouse clicks in detailed view. Regardless of how skilled you are with a terminal, it will be slower and more inefficient to do the same thing. For the most frequent file management operations, gui will always be better and faster than terminal.