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GUI is often faster to learn, but CLI is almost always faster to use. It's the argument people use for why they choose it. You don't have to move your mouse to click on buttons that can be anywhere. You just type. With tab completion, it's significantly faster.
(There is a secondary argument for CLI for tutorials, in that it's going to be the same or similar for everyone.)
I agree CLI is faster for tasks I do often, but for one-off stuff or rare tasks where I will forget the CLI args, it's significantly slower having to look up the right commands each time.
Again, GUI is faster to learn, CLI is faster to use.
TLDR really helps though, rather than man pages.
If you don’t count looking up parameters in man pages. GUIs are great because you don’t need to remember or look up commands and parameters. GUIs have keyboard shortcuts as well.
CLI is great when doing the same complex operation more than once, chaining program output, and such.
Yeah, easier to learn, slower to use.