I think these kinds of generalizations are pretty absurd, as I can immediately think of counterexamples. Bourne shell (and by extension, bash) is by far one of the most common pieces of software used in the world, and has been hated by virtually everyone since it's release, including admissions by its own author that it is an inferior shell. It's certainly one of the most-widely adopted pieces of software in history; no shell comes anywhere close except maybe Microsoft DOS/cmd during a small time window.