This is my opinion as well. Powershell and object shells are much better and the way to go imo. Also Powershell code is fast owing to running on the .NET VM.

But the actual UX is just convoluted and horrible. For example, the person who decided that commands without a ; at the end of the line should just vomit their outputs to the enclosing function's clearly hasn't heard of the principle of least surprise.

PS just does so many plain weird and unintuitive things, which is worsened by the fact that it looks like a boring old programming language, while clearly not being one.