> anything you can do in a tui can be done better in an actual graphical window.
Almost certainly. But for whatever reason, most GUIs created happen to be really bad at the things that most TUIs I've used happen to be really good at, namely searchability, reflowability (mostly used to increase text size and change font face for legibilit), and keyboard navigation.
GUIs that nail these things are delightful. They're highly accessible and extremely efficient to use. But it also seems to me like the full power afforded by GUI toolkits leads a lot of developers to pour a lot of time and effort into other things (which matter less, at least to me, personally) while totally neglecting those aspects of their apps.
Almost certainly. But for whatever reason, most GUIs created happen to be really bad at the things that most TUIs I've used happen to be really good at, namely searchability, reflowability (mostly used to increase text size and change font face for legibilit), and keyboard navigation.
GUIs that nail these things are delightful. They're highly accessible and extremely efficient to use. But it also seems to me like the full power afforded by GUI toolkits leads a lot of developers to pour a lot of time and effort into other things (which matter less, at least to me, personally) while totally neglecting those aspects of their apps.