I content that magit, while not a GUI, pretty much transcends git’s CLI.

GUIs will only ever tackle a subset of git’s functionality since if you’re already a power user you’ll be comfortable with the command line.

I'll give magit a try. But imagine if you had to use TEX to format anything more than trivial documents. It makes me want to get a Vision Pro and see if a direct manipulation git UI could access the full potential but with visual discoverability and safety.

I find gitx really helpful at understanding what's going on in git. Especially its ability to drag branches around the tree shows you that branches are just labels, they aren't the actual code. It doesn't do everything, but what it does do certainly isn't dumbed down.

You definitely need a gui to do partial commits. git add -P is just horrible to use.