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I dont disagree on the workflow - struggling with the same. But CLIs have an absolute sweetspot abstraction.

A simple text interface, access to endless tools readily available with an (usually) intuitive syntax, man pages, ...

As a dev in front of it super easy to understand what it's trying to do, and as simple as it gets.

Never felt the same in Cursor, it's a lot of new abstractions that dont feel remotely as compounding





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