Powershell is the ultimate expression of the Unix pipeline imo.

Passing objects through the pipeline and being able to access this data without awk/sed incantations is a blessing for me.

I think anyone who appreciates shell pipelines and python can grok the advantages of the approach taken by Powershell, in a large way it is directly built upon existing an Unix heritage.

I'm not so good at explaining why, but for anyone curious please have a look at the Monad manifesto by Jeffrey Snover

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/monad-manifesto-th...

You may not agree with the implementation, but the ideas being it, I think, are worth considering.