Re: Haters Gonna Hate, but...
That is point on, using Unix shell scripts for nearly 35 years now, watching power shell looks like the ultimate perversion in development of scripting languages.
So I really do not understand many of the negative reactions, it is possibly also a very wise move of MS. There are not so many sysadmins able to create scripts, the percentage of Unix sysadmin able to write non-trivial scripts is substantially higher than under MS sysadmins, who are used to find their ways in a rain forest of utterly complex stacks of tabbed windows to achieve their objectives.
Since canonical attaches its name with the project, one can expect it will work fine.