[ailideex]

> something that was not carefully designed in the first place (like basically all of Unix)

While I would generally agree that the Unix shell language (of which bash is a superset) and the bash language itself is not the most elegant and well designed things in the world - and that it should be used in a limited way and there are better options in most cases - I do have to say that to me at least it is significantly better than PowerShell which, while it clearly had a lot of design work put into it, seemed to have been designed by someone who has never used a shell or a terminal and maybe only had some limited interaction with a computer of any kind.