That is very different from how I remember history. At least in Norway (and Nordic countries in general I presume), Apple never had much presence. Whatever they thought of the CLI, was rather irrelevant. Amiga and PC which was both popular in the 80s both had a command line.

I'd rather say that it was Windows which made the CLI look bad. They made people think that CLI means old fashion technology. Amiga like OS X had a window system and CLI from the beginning and so users did not view CLIs as old fashion technology but rather as one of several alternatives.

My experience from the time was that it was mainly PC Windows users who talked down CLIs because they viewed DOS as a antiquated. In some ways it makes sense as the DOS CLI has been horrible for decades and MS never put any effort into making it nice.

I'd say OS X could be thanked for resurrecting the CLI. I still encounter Windows developers who almost don't know about the CLI and who never uses it. I don't think you find and OS X developers in the same position.