For me it’s mostly - the convenience of being in the terminal, where I live

- you can use em over ssh

- they’re typically made with keyboard usage in mind, which is often an afterthought in a typical browser based UI

- other GUI options are browser (sandboxes, obvi, not good for lil personal tools), native (not dead simple, compared to TUI/browser/electron), or something like electron (no way lmao)

I don’t seek out TUI’s instead of other solutions. But it’s so dang easy to pop open a new pane and run lazygit. And it makes you look really cool when people walk behind you