This kind of attitude is not helpful. Sometimes even tech people want things that work "good enough" with no configuration or thinking involved. No need to go full normie.

I'm not trying to be helpful. But I find this worry about having to configure CLI tools to be overstated. Just because they allow you to configure everything doesn't mean you have to. My personal email setup is: "sudo apt install alpine", configure account info, done.

You don't even have to memorize the action keys, Alpine shows the available actions for the current screen at the bottom, with helpful labels. It's arguably clearer than Gmail, with its unlabeled icons.

Sadly thats not the norm. A lot of those (otherwise great) text tools ship with horrible defaults and suffer from poor discoverability. Sometimes it's both combined and somebody actually contributed such an improvement but nobody bothered to turn it on.