I don't think so. Although, there seems to be small trend, especially with golang utilities - to shift from text toward json - or rather a "worst of both worlds

I don't think so. Although, there seems to be small trend, especially with golang utilities - to shift from text toward json - or rather a "worst of both worlds" - docker is a prime example of this, eg: docker network inspect webservers -f '{{ range.Containers}}{{.IPv4Address}}{{end}}' Once tools start down this path, I think powershell, or any shell built around primitives that work on tree structures, make more sense (ie: rather than cut, awk, grep-tools for printing named fields etc). Must admit, I am no big fan of ps syntax - too verbose for interactive use - too unfriendly for scripting..