Because the Gates administration produced a primitive command interpreter/environment, that was barely acceptable for the original PC. Then the Ballmer adminis

Because the Gates administration produced a primitive command interpreter/environment, that was barely acceptable for the original PC. Then the Ballmer administration blocked console improvements on NT for thirty years. Yes, thirty. Meanwhile the internet was born and raised on Unix and had a competent (not perfect) design for terminals and shells. The Windows terminal folks have done a bang-up job trying to make up the deficit, and mostly succeeded in the last few years. But it takes more than tools, it takes mindshare. Was never interested in powershell, but there are other alternatives from WSL, like git-bash and the yori shell, both of which I recommend.