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Hmmm. I hear what you're saying, Nat, but I'm not sure that I agree with you. Whether an application has a GUI or a CLI has nothing to do with whether or not it lets you "tweak the difficult bits".
Eg, for many years I've used a Windows FTP shareware app called "CuteFTP". At its simplest level, you can just drag and drop files into it. For the "advanced" user, though, it lets you do everything that the command-line FTP client does, plus "advanced" stuff like scripting, macros, etc. Being a GUI doesn't stop it from offering advanced features, but it does mean that the novice doesn't have to learn all the nasty bits of FTP in order to be able to use it.
Similarly with "Word". At its easiest level you can just run it and type a letter. For the advanced user it's fully programmable with a fully-fledged programming language (VBA). Having a GUI doesn't stop it from having advanced features.
Having said all that, I am completely comfortably using command-line FTP clients and the like, for the simple reason that in my job as an IT professional I need to know how to use such tools because they are the only ones I can guarantee will be present on a customer's machine. Given the choice, though, of using command-line FTP or a nice GUI such as CuteFTP, I'll use the GUI every time.
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