The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

menuitis
 /men`yoo?i:'tis/, n.

    Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded
    menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and
    much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces,
    especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in
    which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof
    paper, WIMP environment, for the rest of us.


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

menuitis

   /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with
   an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
   Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the
   flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces,
   especially those customisable via macros or a
   special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks.

   See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the
   rest of us.

   [Jargon File]

   (1994-12-02)