> It's totally fine for basic UNIX tooling, but pretty painful if you're trying to make nice interactive TUIs.

This sounds like a deliberate choice from Apple TBH because they, well, like their UIs and don't want to promote TUIs necessarily :)

> It's totally fine for basic UNIX tooling, but pretty painful if you're trying to make nice interactive TUIs.

The latter seems always to be about aesthetics, not about UX.