As a touch-and-go end user I'll take you up on that at least with some anecdotes: In 2007 I joined the powershell enthusiasts excited by the notion of a bash-l

As a touch-and-go end user I'll take you up on that at least with some anecdotes: In 2007 I joined the powershell enthusiasts excited by the notion of a bash-like capability treating .NET constructs as a first-class citizen. I invested time into learning common use cases. Certain things you would THINK would be easy like loading a DLL as well as it's corresponding config file were actually quite difficult in practice which was a shame because the primary vision for powershell was to be flexible glue between compiled assemblies. Have you ever tried to invoke ms-test with powershell on a DLL which has a config xml? I had a touch-and-go relationship with poweshell. I returned to use it a few years later to find that many of my powershell V1 scripts were obseleted by the powershell V2 runtime. Writing C#/.NET code to execute on many versions of windows this is rarely an issue. Writing powershell code to execute on many versions of windows you have a serious problem on your hands as the commands syntax and general practices vary significantly between versions. To this day googling for examples on how to accomplish something basic such as running a dos command line call with parameters constructed within powershell is not only highly vexing for the occasional casual user such as myself but many of the answers I see in blogs or stackoverflow are completely temporal and you need to be careful to look for results dating around 2013 for powershell v2 because anything before that wont work, but not too new because v4 has a new approach and that would require a service pack not all my users can currently procure. Not to mention everyone writes powershell in a different style. You often end up with a handful of different code examples that look wildly different each with their own issues as well. Sure there are expert powershell users out there with muscle memory that can write elegant solutions for version incompatibility issues and common gotchas, however for the casual seldom user the overall experience that too much frustration, less than intuitive approach and 10 ways to solve a common problem. It feels sort of like running perl in a dos prompt that is constantly changing. Compare this with zen of python where [There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.] I find myself installing python runtime and avoiding powershell when I'm required to make something of significant complexity and high compatibility.