The Terminal is always there at your disposal. OS X is a real UNIX so I don't get how you're limited in any way. Why do so many developers swear by their MacBooks if it's so dumbed-down?
Maybe not every developer is a power user? There are those that are happy with UI and there are those that prefer CLI.
Maybe it is a frontend/backend preference (I prefer backend BTW)?
Some of the issues that my wife had (ordinary user):
- directory structure in Finder is strange, you don't know where your Documents is located
- photos after transferring from iPhone using the default app land in some strange format, should would expect to have jpeg/heic/mov files, but what she sees is a binary DB file (how to send photos to relatives from e.g. gmail, when you can't select it from the filesystem?)
- closing apps - when I click on the red button I expect the app to close, not just one of the windows, so the only way on macOs is to go to app menu and click Exit (too many clicks and needs scanning for a text), while I think most would prefer the other way around (my wife does)
And from myself: Why the default unix tools are in ancient versions?
One has to install brew to do anything non-trivial in Terminal.
