Many of the APIs on Windows are pretty trivial to interact with using PowerShell commandlets. Similarly, many SaaS based tools have CLIs to interact with their

Many of the APIs on Windows are pretty trivial to interact with using PowerShell commandlets. Similarly, many SaaS based tools have CLIs to interact with their arbitrarily complex APIs. You can still have easy abstractions while providing a way around them for times they don't work well (acquiring structured data)