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Interesting idea. If you really break it down, the "terminal with command buttons" is similar in concept to saving each of the commands as a script and putting those scripts in a directory to act as "buttons."
I've also seen some programs such as Kopia, a backup tool, that provide a GUI with the equivalent terminal commands for what is bring done shown at the bottom.
I don't think what you're describing exists, probably because experts don't need it and beginners would prefer a full GUI.
There is Nushell, which promises more helpful error responses for the terminal, but its too early for it to be targeted at beginners in my opinion.
As much as I love nushell it will ever be too early for beginners, POSIX compliance is a big problem there. They have their very good reasons to not be POSIX compliant, but someone starting out should familiarize themselves with the most common pattern first before jumping to something completely different that will prevent them from running code snippets they might find online.