This is not true. If you want, you can literally pipe PowerShell output into grep (or select-string, which does the same) and it will filter by the tabular repr

This is not true. If you want, you can literally pipe PowerShell output into grep (or select-string, which does the same) and it will filter by the tabular representation of each row. That can work just fine in interactive use cases and while it is less accurate and performant, it is the same bash. The key to success in using PowerShell as an interactive shell is to memorize aliases and not caring about casing and spelling everything out. PowerShell is case-insensitive, has aliases (e.g. ? instead of where-object, or % foo to get the foo property of every object) and will accept abbreviated command and parameter names if the abbreviation is unambiguous. It is also useful to know about the different formatting cmdlets: mostly format-table (ft), format-list (fl), and that you can pick properties with -p (-Property). While PowerShell usually does the right thing, with these you can get the most appropriate formatting for any use case.