That's because PowerShell blurs the line between programming language and scripting language. By accessing the entire .NET library, of course it's going to have more features than a basic scripting language that relies on open source utilities installed on the system.

The reasons people hate it are because they hate Microsoft, it breaks from traditional shells too far, and it's a pain in the ass to type (verbose). To use PowerShell effectively, you almost need to write full software programs. At that point, just use C#.

As for you preferring it to Python.... I think you don't know Python. I'm trying to come up with every way possible to make PowerShell sound better than Python, and I got nothing. Maybe you don't like whitespace? I cannot understand your point of view here. Help me out

I use both ALOT professionally. I can say I prefer Python over PowerShell anyway... Except for Windows automation, where PS is actually pretty dope. Bash is okay, I've seen folks write shit in it that should have been done in Python, or GoLang, or literally anything else.

That being said, I won't go near Rust, not because it's a bad language feature wise, but my brain hurts when I try and read Rust code.