Right? I was just about to say that Windows ships with power shell these days, but then immediately realized how poorly that maps. It used to ship with qbasic

Right? I was just about to say that Windows ships with power shell these days, but then immediately realized how poorly that maps. It used to ship with qbasic and a nice editor held over from dos. That was pretty good, though it was essentially hidden. It was there, but there was no icon for it and no docs or directions said to use it, let alone boot right to it as your primary interface. Basically the driving force behind the production of Windows is the parts of MS that make money from it, not the developers who would write stuff for other developers if they could. They want users that consume, not produce, and they absolutely do not want users who tinker and poke and modify. They offer development systems only because they still have to, and they make even those into managed inscrutable products you merely use like powerpoint as much as possible.