This is why my threshold for not using any shell is "does it have more than one loop, more than one if-statement, an argument or file format parser or more than

This is why my threshold for not using any shell is "does it have more than one loop, more than one if-statement, an argument or file format parser or more than 10 lines?". Meaning that only very trivial things can be shell scripts and you rewrite early enough such that it isn't really a hassle or painful.