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> If a GUI condenses 5 steps into 1

That's your big assumption. It doesn't happen very often and, more often than not, those 5 steps you could do with one command without your hands leaving the keyboard will require a couple clicks of the mouse at not-always repeating spots on the screen.

Terminal users aren't masochists. They use terminals because it makes the work easier. I use an IDE to write Java code. I use Emacs to write Python code because it's easier to me. I use a terminal to investigate because it's much simpler than attaching a GUI-based IDE to a running remote machine.

And nobody seriously uses text based spreadsheets. We I need to crunch numbers or reads lots of data, I use Jupyter and pandas.



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