[pjmlp]

I use computers since the 8 bit home computers were a novelty, and DIY hardware was still something common on electronic hardware shops, I don't get the console love, we put up with it back then, because we could not afford anything better.

Yes, it does have some useful use cases, that is about it.

[bamboozled]

“It does have some useful use cases”, what are you on about?

[pjmlp]

Exactly that, it has some useful cases, the time to live on the console, with TUIs and no access to any kind of graphical output was outdated by the 1990's, as graphical computing started to be affordable and WIMP[0] became common, no need to be stuck in time.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)