If you could back at the beginning of Bitcoin knowing what it will become, would you complain about GUI ?
Monero will never become popular without plain wallet/GUI that can be used by any typical user. It will stay forever a toy for geeks.
MRO will necessarily have a GUI later but it will be too late for you to buy.
According to MRO subreddit
32bit miner is out. This means the coin will be botnet raped.
You have really no idea, the daemon, the wallet and everything has a wonderful RPC JSON API and a high level api....
Why hasn't it reached exhnages yet?