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Considering that aptitude needs shortcuts it might feel like a throwback to pacman for OP.
There's also synaptic for checking out dependencies and searching etc. which doesn't need the user to learn shortcuts.
Where aptitude absolutely rules and saves the day is in fixing complex package conflicts... but often if your system has reached that point you might as well consider reinstall.
You can use shortcuts, or you can use the keyboard menu, or a mouse.
It also works well in case you ever get restricted to a text interface.
Aptitude has a GUI? I've been using it purely CLI for years.
You just launch it without arguments for the TUI: $ sudo aptitude
It’s technically TUI, but on all the xterms I’ve used it, it accepted clicks. No idea how that works, but it does. I find it better to use the keyboard though.