PowerShell 7 fixes it so you can put pipes on the new line, without needing backtick escape on the previous line. e.g. in Windows Terminal ctrl+enter a newline and write

    gci
    | select name

> One of the things not often mentioned about PowerShell is its embeddability

Not mentioned enough; Exchange 2007 GUI was built with PowerShell integration such that you could click through with a mouse, and it would show you the powershell code for you to copy/paste and reuse it yourself without a GUI. This is a very underused, under-discussed idea, IMHO.