I think then the question becomes "Why use PowerShell rather than other scripting languages that give you objects?" I'm certainly not saying PowerShell is bad

I think then the question becomes "Why use PowerShell rather than other scripting languages that give you objects?" I'm certainly not saying PowerShell is bad to use but if you aren't on Windows you're probably already scripting in Ruby or Python or something like that. Then if your script becomes more of a serious thing, all the stuff you're interacting with probably has a Python SDK and you'll never find that with PowerShell.