Bash's problem, as well as its selling point, is that it is both "good enough" and "ubiquitous" (both in installations and inside the many, many brains of devs)

Bash's problem, as well as its selling point, is that it is both "good enough" and "ubiquitous" (both in installations and inside the many, many brains of devs) which means that it is essentially the JavaScript of shell, and will thus never go away. I used to try to fight it, then I decided to accept it, and things have gone better since. I actually think something like es-shell https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/ https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/ is (or would have been) the most underrated possible replacement for bash, but oh well