It's easy and fun
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Scriptability.
It's just way faster for me most of the time. I can hit F12, do what I need, and be done without messing around with a mouse or touchpad.
Commands form a language (together with the scripting lang of choice) and if you want something very particular to happen, describing it is often easier than conveying it with pictures.
For example changing the way files are named, but only for certain files with different properties and in a very non-straightforward way, can be easy with a little preprocessing, regex and vars, but very hard with any bulk-rename tool.
The CLI was there first. GUIs are still catching up.
It's very fast and nearly always gives me the results I want without extra bullshit. For example using bc or qalc to do a quick unit conversion vs launching a calculator app for the same purpose.
Because I have to for some things. If I could never see a CLI again I'd be happy.
If you know how to use git, you will know how to use docker (provided you know what you want to do). They are completely different programs, yet you can quickly grasp the other instinctively.
Now, Photoshop and Blender - they are also different programs, but if you know Photoshop, you still need to relearn Blender's interface completely.
This is why I prefer terminal programs in general. Unless it's more convenient to use GUi, i.e. Drag&Drop file manager, some git tools etc.
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You use it because you like to be efficient your use of a computer.
I use it because I'm a bossy arsehole and I like telling things precisely what to do.
We are not the same.