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https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561#issuecomm... describes why the maintainer thinks the opinion was entitled. I don't think your description is accurate.
> And what exactly is the use case for this?
Terminal User Interfaces. There's technically no reason i can't check out an image in a folder when i'm browsing on an SSH session (yes i know i can rsync/scp && xdg-open but it's not exactly as fast to type as viu [0].
> powerful, optimized, tested, reliable software that enables me to work with terminal and GUI functionality side by side
If you have tested and reliable desktop environments to recommend, i'm all ears. All the ones i've tried over the years have their own quirks and memory leaks (yes, that includes GNOME and KDE).
But as you said, both approaches are complementary. I'm glad notcurses exists and works via graceful degradation, so people with a modern terminal can get the best while others can still get a featureful ncurses-like experience.
For a basic example of why you would want GPU acceleration, have a look at refterm: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm
Even processes that you wouldn't think would be impacted by a terminal can be hurt relaly bad by your terminal's performance: your compiler's logs, etc. The GPU rendering part merely guarantees that your terminal sticks at 60FPS (or, whatever your refresh rate is) if the processing behind is efficient.