Good to see Nature making this point, although this argument is hardly new.

If you like your arguments in long-form, why not read In the Beginning was the Command Line from 1999 (yes, it's old, but well worth a read).

Interestingly, the command line being great does not make the alternative fairly OK. It's much worse than that (that is an article by Ben Klemens from about a decade ago, original URL has unfortunately succumbed to linkrot, but I had it saved on my Wallabag).

A Javascript tool to model tandem photocatalytic devices, by Brian Seger, assoc. prof. at DTU.

I first heard about it in a talk by Ib Chorkendorff (PECSYS, 201105).