You can hide things in submenus, tabs, side bars etc. so you can get get to lots of things in a few clicks, think BTrees for indexing data, but you can search through a screen more more easily by taking in multiple things at once compared to a vector of data.

The issue is that you can rebalance BTrees and no one notices, you “rebalance” a GUI and people’s pre-remembered paths are invalidated.

It’s also inherently something that has to happen to add new features on a GUI. There’s only so much real estate, you add more menu options, then the menu gets too big and you need to reorganize it.

Pipes and repeatability are the big advantages of CLI for me.

Someone asks me how to do something, I can give them one or more commands and they can parse that and understand it.

On a GUI I have to trying and navigate them either in person or through chat somehow. Plus, if they forget how, they might need to ask again instead of just finding the command in their chat history.

GUIs are better for poring through data as a whole, like Google docs, but CLIs are better when I want to do an operation or filter through things without looking at the thing itself, ie git or grep.

Forget DHS or other government agencies, these companies have been shown to be untrustworthy stewards of our data from regular hackers.

I get that discord is used to groom kids and there is a very real risk to allowing children to use it unsupervised, but that means kids devices are the ones that need to be locked down, not the rest of the world.