> "This cpu is ~80% this is ~25% load" shown with representative bars for a quick visual gauging of the machine's state at a glance. Would it give it any more benefit it it had nice ticks, and fine gradations, and fancy rendering, so that you could tell 78% vs 80% more easily?

Yes. For instance the more cores you have the less room there is to draw a sensible graph, and we're up to 256 threads already. Even less enormous machines are already at the point where text is constaining.

> It's not like GUI apps don't exist.

Yeah, but SSH is great and not everything has good remote management. And I want the command line to keep up, not to be the better than nothing option.