It's a hard learned lesson that the UI tools can fail you at some point with Linux. At which point you are going to have to resort to the command line to fix it or just reinstall everything from scratch. A lot of people do the latter. Learning to fix things will get you familiar with the command line in a hurry.

For me personally it depends on what's the most convenient at the moment.

I've played around with Debian for several years using it for small little servers. They do not need to have a monitor connected, so i never use a gui.

When using my Steam Deck i don't have a keyboard and the virtual keyboard is kinda annoying, so i use the gui.

I can't seem to get used to work with a Debian installed laptop. I've tried many times, but i don't see a daily beneficial goal to use Linux, mostly because i'll always get Windows 10/11 working :)

I've been using Linux for 25 years, there were file browsers and I believe F2 did rename. I rarely use them, but then it's rare I want to rename a file. If I want to do something larger, it tends to be using things like "find" or at least "mv * /tgt".

Maybe its just me but I never use the command line unless necessary even tho I used to fidget with it in Ubuntu

When did you start using linux?

A dropdown terminal with tab autocomplete is faster for navigation on my end

I use a tiling WM, I'm always certain that Workspace 3 and 4 will have a terminal open, and from there it's just using lf (tui file manager). I don't have a GUI file manager installed.

The terminal is easier, allows for calm editing and reviewing, sharing the procedure, and is way more text-friendly than GUI file managers.

If you don't know how to do it, then yeah, you'll probably use a GUI manager. But those people will probably learn how to use a terminal if they do something a lot.