Doing everything from a terminal is cool and all and makes me feel like a hacker or something, but it's far easier to just click around tbh, and then have the option of using the terminal if I want to.
Of course it's easier, that's why it's the most popular form of computer interface, however what it gains in ease of use it sacrifices in efficiency and precision. Conversely, a CLI is completely opaque to the uninitiated, but it is far more efficient than clicking around an arbitrary sequence of windows/tabs/menus.
To be fair in the early days of NT4 and part of NT5, there was very limited cli support. Especially for management of features such as Active Directory