and do you find powershell to be a simpler alternative? i recently had to look into a 100 or so lines powershell script and it felt crazily hard to read. Good thing I had access to the guy who wrote it so that he just told me what it was supposed to do (he gave up explaining the script)

Yes the powershell language itself is a poorly thought-out hack but using shell scripting for non-trivial tasks is a related but different problem that has to do more with a (thankfully narrowing !) skillset gap between devops/IT people and software developers. So just like a 100 or so line bash script would probably be better off written in python so would a 100 line PS script be better done in any .NET language and exposed as a cmdlet