> The article is not against CLIs but TUIs.

Isn't it against both? Maybe I'm reading it wrong then, because things like these certainly seem against CLIs:

> Back in 1999, Neal Stephenson wrote an essay about command line interfaces that set the field of human-computer interaction back about 20 years. In it, he depicts the priesthood of Unix nerds wielding CLIs as powerful Morlocks, holding the entire computing industry on their shoulders.

> If you haven’t tried your hand at turning one of your 500 throwaway CLIs into a native app, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

Maybe I'm missed something else, but I certainly got the impression the author isn't very impressed by CLIs.