I think this is a valid point. bash is an overly complicated tool...so I'll write another tool on top of that (with none of the decades of debugging that bash itself has undergone) to make bash...LESS complex?

The problem is with bash itself.

We tend to undervalue ease of use and overvalue "cleverness."

Case in point: git. Very clever tool. Ease of use: terrible. But Linus wrote it and Linus is clever, so it must be us that's the problem.

We get what we value. Let's value ease of use more.