Yeah I was there. Some people may think it's just the norm in the old times. It's not. It's just Apple obsession with being "user friendly", and for some reason, they think Gui is more friendly for programmers than code.
It did work though, the developer drain from MS to Apple around that time was massive. They were giving easy tools to low-skill developers, and command-line access to high-skill developers, a win-win. Whereas MS around that time was busy overcomplicating Visual Studio in their quest to merge web and desktop development for lock-in purposes.
