Honestly this is half the reason I use Powershell for everything. Bash-like experience but everything returns objects.

It's a messy, hairy, awful language. Consistently inconsistent, dynamically-typed in the worst ways, "two googles per line" complexity, etc.

But for the convenience of being able to combine shell-like access to various tools and platforms combined with the "everything is a stream of objects" model, it can't be beat in my experience.

And you can still do all the bash-like things for tools that don't have good Powershell wrappers that will convert their text-streams into objects. Which, sadly, is just about everything.