Shell scripting is not bad these days. There’s a linter - Shellcheck - that will catch most gotchas in scripts, there are a lot more resources to learn shell on

Shell scripting is not bad these days. There’s a linter - Shellcheck - that will catch most gotchas in scripts, there are a lot more resources to learn shell online, and there are tools like Bats to make your life easier if your shell scripts grow too big. Writing logic - functions, for loops, or if statements- is still very annoying in Bash. Likewise writing a piece of code that glues calls to external commands is extremely clunky in almost all other languages (except Perl an Ruby), notably Python which is often treated as a Bash replacement. Finding the right balance can be tricky, but choosing only Shell or only Python is not the right way to go.