[kvark]

Having a standard CLI is definitely helpful. But does it have to be so hard to use? At what point would we acknowledge that we are being hostage by some random ideas put into ancient software, which just happened to survive?

I don't think calling for a stop of experimentation is the way. Nobody is going to take away your vi and bash any time soon.

[immibis]

We shouldn't be held hostage, but the evolution of interactive CLIs is GUIs and the evolution of batch CLIs is scripting languages, and we don't need to render the CLI concept meaningless by integrating both. I've seen a terminal emulator that supported pixel graphics - what's the point! Just make a GUI using your favorite framebuffer library!

A TUI is not a CLI, either.