I understand the usefulness of the terminal and how universal it is for troubleshooting across distros. But can’t there be a way to make a nice graphical tool for the various admin level tasks that need to be performed?
Edit: Thank you to the outpouring of feedback on this. It has greatly opened my eyes to how much I don’t know about. I did see a couple suggestions though, so I’ll be sure to check them out.
There is a way. You go and build the GUIs you want to exist or convince someone else to do it for you. As others have mentioned, building GUIs is a lot more work than building CLIs. Whenever an admin tool exists, someone wrote it because they needed it. If they decided that CLI is enough, that’s what the tool uses. Since CLI is almost trivial to build, most such tools have CLI. Luckily GUIs can be built on top of CLIs so if you want a GUI for something that has CLI, you can just put the work towards the GUI that calls the CLI under the covers.