I appreciate the innovation happening with TUIs in these modern times. But, aesthetically, I have to say, I like my borders to have some breathing room, which gets lost in this particular treatment.

My thoughts exactly. Borders costing a cell means you are forced to be frugal with them, lest you run out of space or have to do ugly and clumsy "pwease make ur window biggr :3" messages

One of the top 5 "smells" of LLM generated websites that I can't stand is everything has to have its own round-rect. Everything in a box. Every button, label, header, subheader, so much fucking noise everywhere. You shouldn't need that many.

Another, of course, is the phrase "The wire format", included in this post. Oh yeah, its the format on the wire? What wire? The wire between my psuedo terminal and my kernel? What garbage. Cool exploration but, come on: "The common path is a pen, held in the cursor like the current background color. Set it, print some text, and the printed cells get the borders:" shit is not OK to post