The page https://minecraft.net/en/download/server suggests starting the server jar using the command line and with nogui.
As you can just execute the jar file and the GUI is probably more easier to use for the "average" user, I expect it to mention the nogui argument for "advanced" users only, but not suggest in generally as the way to go.

Besides that the command provided uses an incorrect file name because for the last versions the jar files are named minecraft_server.X.jar where X is the version.