Anecdotal, but I learned to program as a kid prior to college using free Ubuntu CDs[0], and became familiar with the command line sort of by necessity.
[0]: Ubuntu used to mail you an install CD, for free, anywhere in the world. In the early 2000s. It was pretty cool.
I've been using Linux for roughly 20 years, and I prefer the command line. But that's only because it's Linux. There's no inherent need to do a lot of things with a command line except in a context where it's the simplest, most stable, predictable, and documented way purely because of historical and cultural reasons.
Because of the long running Linux/Windows rivalry, hardly anybody can imagine something better than a Unix-clone any more. But the very name Unix was chosen because the original OS was not intended to be the be-all/end-all of OSes.
[0]: Ubuntu used to mail you an install CD, for free, anywhere in the world. In the early 2000s. It was pretty cool.