[cryptonector]

Except that now when you do need a tool like XSLT/XPath, jq, or yq, now you need bash. I use bash lots, but still I'd rather use a better language, like the ones you listed.

I'm being slightly hypocritical because I've made plenty of use of the filesystem as a configuration store. In code it's quite easy to stat one path relative to a directory, or open it and read it, so it's very tempting.

[user3939382]

You don’t need bash to traverse a file system, are you saying something else?

[cryptonector]

You don't need bash itself. Substitute any shell, Python, whatever.