I think Coding Horror gave a fairly succinct overview, including sources[1]. As usual, it's incomplete understanding and cargo-culting of opinions until the statement in question bears little resemblance to the original assertion.

1: https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-keyboard-vs-the-mou...

I rather use a REPL environment that combines GUI and CLI, like in Xerox and ETHZ OSes.

Think of DrRaket, Swift Playgrounds or Jupyter like experience.

Yes, there's far too little of this. I'd love something that combines the good points of Powershell and a GUI file explorer for example. Even the primitive out-gridview or ogv is incredibly handy.

Powershell is probably the closest we have currently in terms of that experience.