There's that famous Knuth exchange with another programmer where Knuth develops a super-complex data structure and algorithm to solve a problem, and the other p

There's that famous Knuth exchange with another programmer where Knuth develops a super-complex data structure and algorithm to solve a problem, and the other programmer responds "that's cool, but I can do that in a single command line by piping three Unix commands". There is a case to be made for programmers being at least familiar with Unix utilities and shell scripting so that they can unlock the superpowers described in that anecdote. However, I largely agree with your sentiment - I pretty much do all of my scripting in JavaScript and Python and would not be particularly happy to have to deal with a large bash script.