> And yet just doodling something raw and having something presentable come out is way more fun than choosing stuff from drop down menus.
It's fun for thirty seconds, after which it is just tedious. If you actually want to "get stuff done", like building a toy city, you will want the menu that shows you what's actually available.
> Why even have a GUI why not a CLI which parses a config file that says "house boat".
Because that's obviously a bad interface as well. It's not like scribbly interfaces are the next step of evolution in human-computer-interaction. They're gimmicks. You're not going to go to Amazon.com and start scribbling something you want to buy. You'll type it in.