The command line isn't scary, it's just a faster conversation
The terminal looks intimidating and is anything but. A handful of commands replace a hundred clicks.
The blinking cursor scares people off, which is a shame, because the command line is one of the most empowering tools in computing, and you only need a few words of its vocabulary to start.
Think of it as talking, not coding
Each command is a short instruction: list what's here, move this there, find that. Once a few become muscle memory, tasks that take a frustrating series of clicks become a single line, and they're repeatable and scriptable in a way a mouse never is.
A good starter vocabulary lives in LinuxIdx's essential-commands guide, the 25 that cover the overwhelming majority of daily use.
Start small, win early
Learn five commands, use them for a week, add five more. Progress in the terminal is almost absurdly fast once you stop being afraid of it.