Then we invented a bot that just puts the most popular 10 year old answer into our code directly

UI’s peaked with the CLI. It’s all been downhill from there

Not sure this honors the spirit of the question, but I think GrapheneOS may be something you’re looking for.

Vim sorely underrated. Great tools/hotkeys. Felt like a master pianist clacking away while the terminal went berserk until suddenly the 2 hour job was done in 20 minutes.