I don't know if he is right or not. But I'd like to wear my Optimist Hat and try to come up with reasons why he might, after all, be wrong.
1. How would people, who want to be GUI designers, get trained in the art of GUI design?
2. Widely-used Free Software is an unbeatable way to advertise one's GUI design expertise.
3. Reduction of effort and cost of building excellent GUI by reusing composite controls, design patterns, templates (like wizards) and prior art.
4. Super-GUIs, which over time learn what and how users actually perform their tasks; and then automatically construct special-purpose wizards to help the users perform those tasks with minimum effort. The learning is not necessarily confined to a single user/installation.
5. Licensing models (like LGPL), which allow an application to be split into Free part with command line interface, and Proprietary part, which implements top-notch GUI.
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