It's just a knee-jerk reaction people have in any thread where powershell is mentioned. "Hur hur long command names." Doesn't bring anything to the discussion.
It means that working in the terminal, you can use short commands, and when you write a long-term script, you use the long names so that the script is more readable.
What I find great is that flags also have aliases that are standardized across commands.
This is why I'm annoyed at this meme. It just stems from ignorance.
But I do get what you're saying and think it's a common meme that's often unhelpful
I don't use it, because I was Mac/Linux at home and Linux at work for so long - only now do I have a reason to.
I love powerful. I've used it for a long and even though I primarily work on macos/linux now, I install powershell core on everything.
That said, I _started_ using it because I was working on a windows box doing C# and managing windows servers.
There's just not a compelling reason for a dev to learn it outside of personal interest, and I think that's a completely legit mindset, since we all have limited time. I'm even fine with misconceptions--we all have them about something--as long as the person is being a decent human about it (which is why I've enjoyed this thread/comments)