How Linux continues to be accepted by the public at large reflects as much on society's evolution as on the science of computing. However, the romance of that original hacker's quest is still available from Linux. By extension, how you adapt to the command line says something about your taste. If you can enjoy the command line as part of your computer heritage and recognize the GUI as a largely commercial innovation, you may find added incentive to master the command line. The command line is perhaps the most important vestage of our hacker heritage.
People tend to favor what they are used to and distance themselves from the unfamiliar.
By contrast, people seem to become advocates of what they know well in computing. There was a time when apples appeared in decals on car windows, and t-shirts proclaimed the wearer's taste in computing. I believe that if you become really familiar and comfortable with the Unix command line, you will prefer its flexibility and speed even over many types of GUIs in use today. This is simply because Unix is heir to the hacker philosophy that everything must be capable of being reconfigured. Linux adheres to this philosophy.