When Powershell was first released I was primarily working with Unices and was very curious what would work better: The Unix way in cutting, changing and grepping some part of stdout (in some OS a bit simplified b with options for automated pricessing which commands the programm to output colon delimited or otherwise formatted)

Or the Powershell way where on can access data members directly.

I thought I would prefer the second method more, because the access looked much cleaner/structured.

But after all these years (still mostly Unix scripting but Powershell and some other environments too) my mind has changed.

Would like to hear what others would prefer' Unix method with some scripting language or windows method with Powershell)