I have been swayed from using the CLI by emacs and magit. There are so many nice things like staging portions of a changeset, and the ability to get a quick visual diff of the changes before they are committed is really really nice. As to why they would work on it, the two main reasons I keep going back to emacs from Atom and VS Code is magit, and the ability to run in a console. to me Atom and VS Code are fast enough for my day to day work