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Most bash scripts are nasty, except for the most simple ones.
In its defense, it's not a programming language.
Tell that to programmers
Do programmers actually like bash?
I'm not a programmer and I really don't like bash. Not because I don't like shell. In fact I do like fish as a shell. But bash always feels super weird. Unfortunately that's kind of the compatibility baseline on Linux (I don't think any relevant system needs strict sh compatibility). But better bash's weird arrays than none at all, plus process substitution is handy.
Its a program wrapper, and eases a lot of string buffoonery that real languages take too seriously. So I think its invaluable to programmers in that regard