I've been meaning to switch to GUI emacs for 15 years, I usually have it working, vterm is nifty... but it just works great in the terminal and with terminals getting SO FUCKING GREAT lately, eh, is it really an upgrade? WezTerm and ghostty on Wayland with no X jank? Accelerated, ligatures, mouse and keyboard clipboard integration, high-DPI...
Can GUI anything keep up?
With a font like "Input Sans" you can fit about +30% more code on the same screen unless you're too pixel starved. Terminal can't do non-monospace. And even if it's just that I want character width to scale slightly with font weight...