Claude Code: GUI vs Terminal — A Tale of Two Workflows

I've been using Claude Code in the terminal for a while now. Sonnet model, JetBrains IDE open on the side, watching changes flow in real-time, git branches under my control. Life was good. Sure, there were annoyances - the dreaded "compacting conversation" message that makes you wonder what context just got sacrificed to the token gods, or losing everything when the terminal session dies. But overall? Solid workflow. Then Anthropic dropped the GUI preview. Shiny new interface. Opus model. "This is going to be amazing," I thought. Reader, it was not amazing.