I was reading some reasons people find the terminal frustrating today and “you can't click to move the cursor" is a really interesting one

because technically your shell COULD move the cursor when you click (by turning on mouse reporting, like you can in vim), but turning on mouse reporting makes it much harder to copy text (it means you need to shift+click, and also it will do weird things around handle line breaks/spaces)

explaining why this doesn't work feels pretty unsatisfying though