when I go to the command line and I want to add a user, do I type... If it was in the GUI, there would simply be a text field and a button
To paraphrase a lecturer of mine, "when you have five hundred new accounts to create at the beginning of every semester, which approach would you rather take?" It's all about the right tool for the right job.

I thought the only slide rule was "don't open the vortex before the timer hits zero"