I'm only passingly familiar with PowerShell but really, it's Microsoft, in the bloody documentation, that literally states precisely that cmdlets are instances

I'm only passingly familiar with PowerShell but really, it's Microsoft, in the bloody documentation, that literally states precisely that cmdlets are instances of .NET Framework classes: "Cmdlets differ from commands in other command-shell environments in the following ways: Cmdlets are instances of .NET Framework classes; they are not stand-alone executables. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714395%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714395%28v=vs.85%... We can have an ontological debate about how an instance of an-object-as-a-concept is different from an instance of an-object-as-memory-content but I think that's best left to amateur philosophers.