(30-06-2021, 06:21 AM)dionys Wrote: And then there's the console context switching, like in Quake (and probably a long list of other games) that took commands and parameters.

GIMP somehow fits that description too, allowing command-line scripting. But from my personal experience with it, the internal documentation (Help > Procedure Browser) is often out-of-date and running it as a standalone command line tool requires overriding some environment variables to start "fresh" in the current directory.
But at least that yet another interface to integrate with command line tools if necessary.