This isn't entirely accurate. Plenty of apps run Terminal commands in the background (for some reason). For example Rewind.ai (before they got acquired and installed a kill switch, Adobe Flash-style) runs `top` every two seconds, presumably to figure out its own CPU usage. What the fucking shit? But I think it's not out of the question that other apps run other crap too.

Also, if they truly didn't care about Terminal users, they would not have even published this article!!

God I'm so sick of this "everything-is-a-conspiracy" mindset. Equally likely that they're incompetent, that they simply forgot, that it's difficult because of legacy code reasons.