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You have your causal arrows flipped around. It is because unix is not graphical that the graphical interfaces bolted onto it are poor and the only good way to interact with it is via the command line. If a system were designed to be graphical—and to be good at it—then there would be no problem.

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I don't find qt or gtk to be much different to whatever the windows one is called now. And the unix window managers are far superior.

But still, the commandline is forever.

macOS is a unix, is graphical and was it from the beginning. I still spend most of my working time in iTerm with fish+neovim. Because the alternatives are slower, bloated and uglier.

But, of course, technically I am still using a GUI, it is just that for some of my workflows GUI applications does not add much value. They also compose in a worse way.

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