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In what way does running in a terminal benefit an application? Take FAR Manager, or OFMs in general, for example. What is the console doing for it but messing with its resizability (a weirdness of cmd.exe's family, afaik), limiting it to the use of fixed-pitch fonts (which are nearly always less horizontally space efficient than proportional fonts which can remain readable while being more compact on average) and eliminating the possiblity of previewing images in the Quick View pane?
Until playing with Plan 9 I might have said the same thing as you, but it taught me that I don't love character-based UIs so much as I hate GUI designers. Plan 9 is the only desktop I've seen that applied graphics to correcting the shortcomings of straight CLI programs (e.g. ed->sam) without confabulating buttons and widgets and ohgodimdrowningingradients.