>This isn't to defend GDB, it cannot do Heap activity or CPU usage or GPU state out of the box and sometimes, a visual interface is nicer. I just wanted to comment on what is possible with GDB, because I was often not aware of that either.

Surely then, the difference between whats possible, and whats easy/default out of the box isn't simply "CLIs are hard" ! :)

Anyway it seems like we'd agree on most things, so nothing really left to discuss.