An observation I have made over the years is that during acquisition of a storage, network, or computing system in general, most storage and system administrators I know seem to care deeply about having a command-line interface, or CLI. Once the system is acquired, though, they never use it, preferring to use the graphical user interface exclusively.
What gives? Is this just a way to torture vendors during the acquisition process, or is there something inherently wrong with a CLI? Do we only care about the CLI because of some idea in our heads that we’re going to do greater things with it (or perhaps via it), and we should be more realistic? Or do people actually use CLIs and I’m just looking at an unrepresentative sample of the world of IT?