I think that there's just a big chasm between average GUI users and terminal avid folk. The mental user map of how to operate software differs so much between GUI/TUI. Enabling pointer integration helps close this gap, but at the same time acts against the motivation of terminal apps (namely pointer-less interaction).

Personally I really like the work and effort that flows into ratatui and it's ecosystem. I've invested a lot of my time recently in creating multiple TUIs/CLIs, if you're interested in exploring a bit:

- Jupyter notebook TUI: https://github.com/samox73/jotter

- Github/pandoc Markdown with LaTeX renderer: https://github.com/samox73/visomd

- Recolor pictures constraining to a certain color palette: https://github.com/samox73/paletteer