Here is an unwanted advice from a old dog, you don't need any libray to write CLIs.

A function to display help, and another old to parse the CLI parameters isn't PhD level coding.

Also nowadays, any LLM friend can quickly generate them.

Yeah the last CLI app I used was actually a TUI. It routed std out and std err from scripts and programs it'd call out to into separate windows. It had animations and effects and a help system built in. It also had theming support because the library I used for the TUI happened to have that and came with some default themes! It was a bit beyond a simple CLI tool.

If I'm farfing around with the console I'm going to have fun.

There are also CLIs actually written in React using Ink

I'm aware....

That is exactly what I am complaining about.

I guess some people like it, but just, ick.

Gemini CLI used it, and I actually hate the layout. Never thought I'd see a CLI manage to waste terminal window space to the point of needing to zoom it out.