Add to that the fact that while the Unix way works well for connecting certain types of programs through pipelines and/or shell scripts, those programs themselv

Add to that the fact that while the Unix way works well for connecting certain types of programs through pipelines and/or shell scripts, those programs themselves are written usually in C or Perl, Python &c, which are languages that have big standard libraries. It might be reasonable to assume that while programs that conform to Unix philosophy may constitute useful building blocks for end user or sysadmin tasks, more complex programs, even those "building blocks" themselves are better off with languages that provide them with a rather large, well-though-out toolset that's built as an integrated whole, i.e. a standart library.