My evidence is purely anecdotal, for example both Chocolatey and Scoop package managers use PowerShell internally. Also modern Windows versions replaced "open c

My evidence is purely anecdotal, for example both Chocolatey and Scoop package managers use PowerShell internally. Also modern Windows versions replaced "open command line" in the Start right click menu with "open PowerShell". There are many things PowerShell can do and batch files can't, starting with piping output between commands.