I hear this opinion a lot but the reason such shells don’t take off is because most of the time in a shell you’re writing the same short snippets over and over.

I hear this opinion a lot but the reason such shells don’t take off is because most of the time in a shell you’re writing the same short snippets over and over. The burden of doing that becomes annoying after a while in some of the more verbose languages. Thus shells favour read once and write many syntaxes.