Comment by orbital-decay

PowerShell always felt like it's optimized for scripting rather than interactive CLI/REPL use. It's great when the complexity of what you do warrants writing a script that can be debugged, tested, and reused... but then there are better scripting languages. What is good for REPL ergonomics of one-liner juggling is usually bad for scripting and readability, and vice versa. Can't design for both.

Calculators had the same problem when they got too powerful for their own good and feature creep made them outgrow their use case in the world of personal computers (see TI or modern advanced calculator apps like Qualculate). They're pretty awkward compared to HPs that were designed for expressing a simple problem in fewest keystrokes with great attention to detail like interactive inversion and repetition.