It's nice when it works, but it's a pain to write a command-line utility that outputs into objects. Whereas in Unix, everything automatically outputs into text,

It's nice when it works, but it's a pain to write a command-line utility that outputs into objects. Whereas in Unix, everything automatically outputs into text, so you have to work hard to prevent it from being chainable to the system. There are also details of Powershell that are very annoying, such as the lack of < redirect, and the difficulties it has on binary output sometimes.