[AnthonyMouse]

> I am surprised the open source community has not built better gui tools

This is the thing that isn't surprising.

In order to make a better GUI tool, you have to understand how the internals work. Then you don't care to use a GUI tool because you know how to use the command line or edit the configuration files. The people who want better GUI tools are the people who don't know how to make them.

In order to change this, the people who want GUI tools but don't know how to make them have to provide some incentive (typically money) to the people who know how to make them but don't want them, e.g. via donations or some kind of commercial agreement. And if they stand around and wonder why nobody else has fixed their problem for them instead of doing the thing that causes it to be fixed, an object at rest tends to remain at rest.