This. I stopped writing shell script for the exact reason. When something is more complex than launching a couple of commands, and involves for example JSON pro

This. I stopped writing shell script for the exact reason. When something is more complex than launching a couple of commands, and involves for example JSON processing, I write the script in python. I realized it after wasting multiple hours debugging problems at work in scripts that used jq or AWK or similar tools and most of the time the problem was solved by quoting randomly things, except when discovering that there is the edge case that I didn't considered and the program broke, again. Now when I have that sort of problems I don't even bother trying to fix them, I just rewrite the whole script in python (they are usually small scripts so it's a question of 15 minutes most of the time). And writing new script in bash is banned (except particular cases). Also there is the concept of portability, most people assume that everyone has a way to install that tools because they have on their system, it's not that simple, and while putting things in production or on the CI it breaks because jq is missing. And good luck with Windows, by the way.