I think the “in principle” is the problem.

The tech isn’t the principle. The experience is. Use the right thing for for the audience. Use a GUI, use a TUI, use a basic CLI tool for day-to-day. And sometimes that can even be additive where more than one is the right answer.

The clicks stuff in this does feel silly to me. But I think that sometimes there’s value in not reaching for a mouse.

If you care about the tech in principle, then I think the answer is to work on a library/framework you love, like they did, vs a user app.

I’m not reinventing those wheels, and will borrow stuff like this when it seems right. And anything is better than curses :).