Any ETL tool can do tasks like this. It probably has a terrible user interface, but they're enterprise tools and enterprise tools tend to be terrible, regardless of the style or task.
You're right that most GUIs don't tend to be composable -- but that's a function of how they're written, not an inherent limitation of GUIs. There's nothing fundamental about the VT100-style interface that makes it optimal for composition. And GUIs potentially offer some huge benefits, like not having to guess at what's flowing through the pipelines, or having a less painful way to deal with quoting/escaping, or offering an alternative to cryptic flags for configuring operations.
Screen editors used to get the same scorn. You probably haven't heard the term "screen editor" in a few decades because every editor today is a screen editor. Once they acquired most of the flexibility of line editors, it turned out that nobody actually preferred line editors.
People want composability, and you can do that in a screen editor better than a line editor -- and a GUI better than a terminal. You just have to have designers who care about it.
You're right that most GUIs don't tend to be composable -- but that's a function of how they're written, not an inherent limitation of GUIs. There's nothing fundamental about the VT100-style interface that makes it optimal for composition. And GUIs potentially offer some huge benefits, like not having to guess at what's flowing through the pipelines, or having a less painful way to deal with quoting/escaping, or offering an alternative to cryptic flags for configuring operations.
Screen editors used to get the same scorn. You probably haven't heard the term "screen editor" in a few decades because every editor today is a screen editor. Once they acquired most of the flexibility of line editors, it turned out that nobody actually preferred line editors.
People want composability, and you can do that in a screen editor better than a line editor -- and a GUI better than a terminal. You just have to have designers who care about it.