Re: I've used a lot of terminals...
I fervently believe that gui development has been horrifically backsliding over the last few decades, with developers apparently more obsessed with what they can take out to make the thing look nicer, than what they should put in to make it work better.
Couldn't agree more - I see a lot of forum threads all over descend into arguments over the minutiae of proposed spacing regimes - and this on modern ui layouts which appear more blank space than content.