I dunno, pre-LLM TUI's at least tended to be okay, and keyboard navigation was a first class citizen. Besides, if you were using a TUI instead of a GUI then you basically always ended up saving memory/battery life, and TUI programs are generally more portable than trying to run some ancient GUI program.

I typically prefer CLI myself but having a TUI to manage torrents for instance was much more ergonomic.

A lot of the complaints in this thread seem like they're aimed more at recent vibecoded UIs than the concept of a TUI.

Like, okay, they are a big step back with accessibility, but they're flickering garbage because they were vibecoded in a weekend and the TS or Python library they're built on was similarly forced upon this world.

For almost every tui, a webui works better imo. Most torrent clients offer a web management ui and it's always going to be easier and more feature filled using a platform that was actually designed for it rather than hacking a gui in to the terminal.