[chrisfinazzo]

> Nonsense, Powershell is a fundamental improvement. It's not a "this is what's we're left with" situation.

It would be, if cmd.exe was long dead, PowerShell had stolen the good parts and continued on its way, but we're not there yet. Cmd.exe still exists on Win 10 and let's not even get into the fact that 64 bit only versions of Windows are not yet everywhere. Sure, Microsoft's ecosystem is larger and more complex, but at some point Win32 becomes a liability and unnecessary baggage.

> Which is sad, since it could have been so much more. The Unix way of doing things, isn't the be all and all.

Cultural compatibility matters - See C & C++. How else do you expect to get users and developers on board if you can't show them how your system is better in a few key ways, but isn't a giant leap from what they're currently using?

Tl;dr Change is scary, try to make it less so.