Browser consoles provide GUI niceties way beyond what's possible in a character grid, like rich-text tables, hyperlinks to DOM elements, and tree views. (And a line editor which lets you move the cursor by clicking...)

I think it's reductive to say that's just a wrapper around an eval function.

I made a bunch of Figma mockups of this sort of thing back in like 2018!

Chrome DevTools meets a File Explorer. :)