> Writing a GUI with equivalent functionality would typically be a lot more work, with no gains at all.

I disagree. Have you used something like tkinter? It's ridiculously easy to build GUIs. The trouble is if you build a GUI that way it will look kinda beige/crap whereas a TUI looks retro (but looks even worse to non-nerds).

Apparently it had no Wayland support: https://discuss.python.org/t/feature-request-wayland-support...

So there’s another issues with GUIs, they might be fine on Xorg and have issues on Wayland (or viceversa). TUIs all work as long as your terminal emulator works.