People everywhere seem terrified of the console. It has a banner over it saying "Know What You Are Doing" and most would prefer to stab away at tree controls and tabs randomly filling in fields until it does something similar to what they want.
That's dynamically loaded, try it with the runtime
$ gcc hello.c
$ ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 4511 Oct 11 16:38 a.out
$ gcc --static hello.c
$ ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 574106 Oct 11 16:38 a.out
It used to be the case that licenses required you to submit your modifications back to the source. Lucent's first stab at opening Plan 9 From Bell Labs back in '99 had such a clause.
There's so much more to Acme than piping.
Actions based on regex matching via the plumber for a start.
Menus you can type / keep in a text file anywhere you like.
No stupid colour syntax highlighting or pointless fancy shit.