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I don’t get it why you are being downvoted.
From that remark, I get that you're on the younger side of the spectrum yourself. Fyi, nearing my 60s, I consider myself on the older side.
As an older person, I only started getting into CLI in my early 50s and really into it in the last few years, when I decided to actually learn to use Bash and scripts to get things done.
It's amazingly efficient for some tasks. Heck, even some image edits (which are by nature very graphical) are much simpler and much quicker done with the CLI than using any GUI. Things like image compression, converting from one format to another, resizing, things like that. And also, obviously, batch processing said images.
Now, considering that between younger you and older I there is most ages represented we can safely conclude that the ability to use the CLI is not age related: I’m no more an expert of the Terminal than you are. At best, I may just have started using it a few years earlier than you.
The question now becomes this: how come most of us have never been educated to actually using CLI tools, instead focusing on GUI (like I have been) as if it was more ‘logical’? How come most of us still think of the CLI as some 'wizardry' tool reserved some 'elite' users while the mouse as natural? It is not.
It’s mere text commands. Text being something we have all learned to read and write as very young kids. Or, at least, we're supposed to have learned that. Text commands should not intimidate us. Think about it: in order to be fluent in English how many thousand of words is one supposed to master? What about grammar? The Terminal is no different it has words and grammar.
Now, one may want to ask schools/teachers why is that they decided to normalize the GUI instead of the text-based interface. Why go the most demanding way of doing things in terms of resources? Why, using Apple or Microsoft or even Google, pick the one tool that gives us (and kids) the less control over it?
I added that part you bolded after I realised I had poorly communicated My tone. However, by then the damage was already done, and people continued to downvote because the post already had downvotes.
I see. Let's see if the damage can be undone by enough 'new' readers, then ;)