> Before GUIs, interacting with a computer was limited to strange terminal commands [...] Even though the strict syntax has been replaced with natural language

This post, and particularly the two quoted sentences, has activated anger pathways in my brain that I didn't know existed... An extremely visceral, primary, response. I find it unbelievably jarring to read.

I know what you’re referring to, and after you said this I noticed the gui’s little control palette. I watch the user click this palette and then have to click the text palette to type a command.

And my mind sympathetically found this extra click offensive. Haha. One extra click and I got there. Hehe

I second this sentiment.