I think the big thing going for it is it's low footprint and mostly universal existence on all servers I work on. For example, I'm working on a Hashicorp Vault

I think the big thing going for it is it's low footprint and mostly universal existence on all servers I work on. For example, I'm working on a Hashicorp Vault server install and due to it's sensitive nature, I'm strongly considering using bash to set it up over something like python. I love the ability to test in a robust language, but the extra dependencies are hard to justify, at least on a security sensitive application.