Will command line still be available after the release of the official GUI?
Yes, it will. As far as I know, there will be support for both in the future. Thus, you will have monero-wallet-cli
, which is the command line wallet, and monero-wallet-gui
, which will be the GUI wallet.
Will Monerod will be blended in similarly of what bitcoin core node/wallet is?
In the future, yes, see the feature request opened herehere. For now, however, monero-wallet-gui
will be a separate binary that has to run alongside monerod
. However, the GUI has a progress bar that shows the syncing status of monerod
. Thus, new users would only have to open monerod
and let it sync. They can monitor the progress in monero-wallet-gui
.
Note that monero-wallet-gui
might not be the official naming, but I used it in this answer for convenience.