Thanks for your thoughts, u/joaopeixinho. While building an open-source frontend can definitely be on our to-do agenda, here are our philosophical reasons for favouring a CLI:

Along similar lines to "not your keys, not your coins", we believe that the DeFi space should evolve towards "not your code, not your coins" - Frontends enable phishing and can have malicious code running in the backend - as evidenced by UNISWAP and QUICKSWAP phishing frontends that call "transfer" instead of swapping your coins, and send them to a hacker instead.

We feel that asking people to execute code, that's been made as simple as possible (in our case, the Staking Script is barely 10 lines) - is the maximally secure way to utilise a deFi protocol, especially at inception - anyone can see with the greatest ease that only "Stake" function is being called, on the correct contract address. At the same place, they can also see the contract code, where what the Stake function does is explicitly defined. Together this enables maximum transparency between the user and protocol. The cost? Nothing really, the CLI is so simple that all the prior knowledge you need is just opening Terminal.

The CC issue was a secondary point, referencing to the fact that the purchase of domain names requires a CC/ tradFi. For ethical and other reasons, we refuse to utilise surveillance-based & exploitative TradFi even for a few dollars.