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by asgerhb 1081 days ago
There is also the question of inertia. People are used to certain software, and recommend this to others. In many cases I'd rather have a CLI that I know how to use, than a finnicky GUI that I don't.
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Yep, also it works, and if it works, why change it?

Also the documentation exists.. find a 10 year old manual how to connect? Still works? Great! A rarity with modern software (and programming languages).

Also, since it's not really "exposed", lack of maintenance doesn't matter a long as it just works.

Especially when the GUI is just a hastily thrown together wrapper for some other command line tool that’s worse than the original.
In 30 years, the GUI could have been deprecated about 7 times.