Microsoft causes learned helplessness

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that's just extra friction, with UIs you can explore and figure out at a glance roughly what a button will do

It's possible to do amazing things with a CLI in seconds that would be minutes of clicking with a GUI - that's why they still exist. And sure, it's tuned towards people who would be "how about I write a Python program to handle this".