Because of the indirection and complexity it causes.

The user is in a shell. The simplest way to add something to their system is a shellscript. No moving parts. You get what you see in the script.

The way the project is set up, there are multiple moving parts. The interaction between the shell, some compiler and a bunch of rust files.

Imagine during the moon landing, Neil Armstrong could not have communicated directly with Buzz Aldrin. But they would had to go through a translator who translates English to German. Who passes the message on to a translator who translates it from German to French. Who then passes it on to Buzz. BOOM!

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