Everybody G(UI)angsta until they have to use the serial console to get a box booted up.
It's perfectly fine for the system's essentials to be non-fancy, to ensure they will also work under adverse conditions.
I was just thingking: cool, lemme install on this old laptop I have. But indeed, if it somehow goes tits up, I'd like to know what's up. So far for coolness
It could use sixels to encode arbitrary graphics and it would still work over a serial link.
I don't expect a fancy TUI like the project this thread is about over a serial console either tbh