Truth is not determined by majority vote.
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.