You're describing all command line tools and config files.
Maybe people will discover GUIs one day, it's only been 30 years.
Maybe people will discover GUIs one day, it's only been 30 years.
That has to do both with design decisions - a typed, compiled language has a big edge here - and differences in how the respective ecosystems were designed and developed.
As for GUIs, I'll paraphrase an old quote I saw on Usenet once: if you need to point at something to communicate, you're at the cognitive level of a preverbal child.
visual stuff (vs. text) is about massive parallelism and compression. see Rudy Arnheim for example. or Tufte. or video games. or excel. or a good "foreign" film. or VR once it doesn't suck.