... smattering of miniature tele-types (called "edit boxes" or "input fields") that you must switch among to prepare input before clicking Submit, which is just a thinly-veiled carriage return ...
Just like a "screen" on an IBM 3270:
"Using a technique known as 'read modified', a single transmission back to the mainframe can contain the changes from any number of formatted fields that have been modified, but without sending any unmodified fields or static data." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270)
That was a 1971 design. We have barely made any progress.
Nope!
The fonts are anti-aliased to hell and scalable; and just look at the breathtaking colors!
Moreover, many GUIs are like this: a smattering of miniature tele-types (called "edit boxes" or "input fields") that you must switch among to prepare input before clicking Submit, which is just a thinly-veiled carriage return (and in fact bound to that key).