The shell script is abstracted, and can hide a lot of the ugliness to the average user, whereas “type this into your terminal” goes full arcane black magic to t

The shell script is abstracted, and can hide a lot of the ugliness to the average user, whereas “type this into your terminal” goes full arcane black magic to the average user. But any opening of a terminal means we’re not in Kansas any more, and can’t be relied upon for any average user flow.