Powershell's object pipes are more inspectable than any of Bourne's text-based decendants. But the tool itself occupies a niche between "write shell, dealing with esoteria of grep/sed/awk/jq/etc" and "write python getting constructs than handle complexity better than pipes".
Looking at the popularity of VSCode, I don't think Microsoft hatred blocks its adoption.
> Looking at the popularity of VSCode, I don't think Microsoft hatred blocks its adoption.
In-apt comparison. The people using VS Code are more likely to be migrating from proprietary tools like PyCharm, Sublime Text, etc or bloated offerings like NetBeans or roughly equivalent offerings like Atom.
The people that would use PowerShell would be migrating from the likes of Zsh, Bash, Fish, and other “hard core free” software.
Looking at the popularity of VSCode, I don't think Microsoft hatred blocks its adoption.