Some of us don't "fall" into the command line, we reluctantly get out of it, and only for specific purposes.

"a paintbrush should be reserved for times when you need fine grain control to paint your bedroom. A hired painter could do it all reliably in a way that doesn't risk you painting over the crown moulding or falling off a ladder."

I'm a Linux sysadmin/developer and I've literally never used a Linux GUI.

I want to do this so bad, but the two things that keep me running X are my browser and mpv. Oh, and viewing PDFs.

You might find https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/blob/master/README.md of interest.

Not entirely sure but I think mpv works without X like mplayer.

I've tried the gui tools in the past, but dd just seems far easier.

I've setup/configured bind a few times, and every time I wish there was a nice gui for it.. even thinking to myself I should make one.. but shortly after I've refreshed my memory of how to do something, and by then, I'm done and leave it alone for some while.

What do you mean fall into the command line ?

The better half of my computer use happens in the command line interface, way more efficient use of my time.