> Some might see the expansion of a single compound command into a nearly 200-line script as a sign of everything wrong with modern software development. And, on one hand, that’s a fair point. But, on the other, the result is pretty nice.

I wouldn't call it "everything wrong with modern software development", but I do think that some of the spirit of the Unix philosophy, with small, simple tools that can be composed in gestalt to get something useful, is lost with this solution.