To me, your choice of worlstation OS says a lot more about your priorities.

All the good GUIs have a license fee.

Using a TUI however makes you an absolute beast mode rockstar engineer

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Honestly, portainer makes my life so easy

luci ui on openwrt is so good

I use the UI for some stuff and then the CLI for other stuff.

I like using IDE's for code as they can annotate the code and other smart stuff (I know vi can do something similar)

CLI is great for bash oneliners and combing through logs or text files.

Yes, i also prefer GUI.

I'd argue that if you only know how to start your own project using the play button, then you aren't a software engineer.

Sounds like someone has DNACenter with fully deployed ISE and SDN fabric. I'm honestly a little jealous.

Using the CLI lets you automate things a lot easier, which makes you a better engineer.