This is just a bundle of your opinions -- to which you're entitled, even if they're totally wrong -- but downthread I see you attempt to
defend them and claim they are objective fact, which is simply ridiculous.
TUIs are a superb tool. They were when they were first standardised in late-tera DOS apps in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and they still have a place today.
Here are some primary reasons you have not considered in your rant:
* UI standards and design
TUIs bring the sensible, designed-by-experts model of UI construction and human-computer interface from the world of GUIs into text-only environments such as the terminal, remote SSH connections, and so on.
For example, they let one set options using a form represented in dialog box, by Tabbing back and forth and selecting with Space or entering values, without trying to compose vast cryptic command lines.
This is not just me; this is the stuff of jokes. This is objective and repeatable.
https://xkcd.com/1168/
https://xkcd.com/1597/
* Harmonious design
A well-done TUI lets users use the same familiar UI both in a GUI and at the console. This is the actively beneficial flipside of the trivial cosmetics you are advocating: you praise a text-mode app implemented in a GUI because it can do more. That is a poor deal; a ground-up native GUI app can do much more still.
But TUIs bring the advantages of familiarity with GUIs to situations where a GUI is unavailable.
* Common UI
The apps you cite as positive examples are markedly poor at following industry-standard UI conventions, which suggests to me that you are ignorant that there are industry standard UI conventions. Perhaps you are too young. That is no crime, but it does not mean I must forgive ignorance.
Nonetheless, they exist, and hundreds of millions of people use them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
TUIs allow familiar UIs to be used even when a GUI or graphics at all are unavailable.
TUIs are not just about menus; they also define a whole set of hotkeys and so on which allow skilled users to navigate without a pointing device.
* Disabilities and inaccessibility
Presumably you are young and able-bodied. Many are not.
GUIs with good keyboard controls are entirely navigable by blind or partially-sighted users who cannot use pointing devices. They are also useful for those with motor disabilities that preclude pointing and clicking.
Millions use these, not from choice, from need.
But because those tools are there, that means that they can also use TUI apps which share the UI.
And the fact that this common UI exists for keyboard warriors like myself, who actively prefer a keyboard-centric UI, means that the benefits of a11y carry across and remain benefits for people who do not need a11y assistance.
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That's 4 reasons, intertwined, that you showed no sign of having considered. IMHO any 1 of the 4 is compelling on its own but combined any 2 would be inescapable and all of them together, for me, completely rebut and refute your argument.