You aren't really comparing apples to apples here. Anything you can do in bash/jq/curl you can do in python 3.x with only the stdlib. If you confine yourself to

You aren't really comparing apples to apples here. Anything you can do in bash/jq/curl you can do in python 3.x with only the stdlib. If you confine yourself to that, its still a better dev experience and can be run in any OS with a python package.