Comment by saghm

Writing shell scripts to orchestrate things is not a particularly great experience. "Shell scripts are annoying to write compared to the programming languages we use for other things" isn't a universal opinion, but it's not exactly uncommon; I've heard plenty of people talk about switching to Python as soon as anything gets even moderately complex. (I often tend to go with the lines "my bar for when to switch to a real programming language is as soon as I have to write an if statement" and "the number of times I've had to write a for loop in bash is the same as the number of times I've had to google the syntax for a for loop in bash", which are only slight exaggerations). Having an actual library for interactions that isn't just a wrapper around the CLI seems like it would be a huge improvement for anything that isn't a one-off interaction.