[MobiusHorizons]

I have to say I have not found this to be true. Bash is an excellent glue language if what you want to do is fundamentally a shell like activity (eg composing together other more powerful primitives). I think the key (which is often forgotten) is just to remember to use the abstractions provided by the language (also shell-check, which is the most helpful linter I have ever encountered)

If you use functions to aid in abstraction, you can easily convert the function to a program in a more capable language as soon as it becomes too complicated.

In the end, I usually find that most of the things people replace good old unix tools with are better in one limited area, but miss a large part of what make the originals magic. Usually this is some combination of universal, discoverable, reduced dependencies, composable abstractions.