Huh... Everything is a object. But that object might be a string. And you don't have to know, you can ask.

I get that when everything is text, it becomes simpler to reason about. But you also have to do a lot of maneuvering to get information out of it. PS tries to give you more power.

My main gripe with ps is command discoverability: I don't know who thought that the "verb-subject" would be a good idea, because if I type "get-" and tab to auto complete, how the hell will I find the command about networking I want?

The learning curve also sucks, but I don't think it's worse than bash. I do remember spending six months with a bash manual tab open in my desktop back when I was starting Linux development.

There are also other crazy advantages ps have over bash, like the native ability to understand cmdlets and their parameters, powerful scripting capabilities with decent support for loops, conditionals etc.

And I don't event know what to tell you about the operators... They were copied from POSIX, so complaing about then is complaing about bash & co.

Finally, PowerShell also let's you access all of the dotnet namespace. This allows you to do a lot of stuff, because you would literally be programing instead of scripting.