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> Nobody will argue about the advantages of a WYSIWG text editor, file manager or spreadsheet over their CLI counterparts.

I think you've never met a LaTeX fan.

Regarding spreadsheets and file managers: for simple tasks I agree they can be better than the command line. But for even a moderately complex spreadsheet I usually prefer a python script, and I've seen office workers spend literal hours doing something that could take me under a minute using the command line.




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