> The GUI is less verbose with the nitty gritty hidden in expandable sections

Much of the nitty gritty is hidden in expandable sections in Claude Code in the terminal now too. Complete with mouse clicks to expand.

> Usually a TUI would be open in VS Code and scoped to whatever repo I'm working with so 10 projects, 10 VS Code instances open, not super scalable.

For my part I'd left-arrow in Claude Code, which gets you the agents backgrounded, so you can switch to any of them in any terminal. Then if I feel the need to look at the code separately I'll work on that in a separate tab. I use a few scripts to assing a default working directory per virtual desktop, so any terminal I open in a given desktop is scoped to the project I work on there anyway.

Not trying to convince you to switch - whatever works for you. For me the TUI harnesses + other terminals in a tiled setup is integrated enough that an IDE doesn't feel worthwhile.