On the other side, as a person that prefers keyboard control[1], I find many GUI editors to treat my keyboard as second-class, requiring the mouse to do basic operations, such as setting preferences, or enabling plugins. I would welcome efforts to bridge this gap.

Also, both emacs and vim have non-terminal versions. I would imagine those are more mouse-friendly, but I have not tried them.

[1] For years my workstation mouse was a trackball in a drawer