You don't have to like it to appreciate it.
Last job I did after 50 years of being involved in most things IT was to write some PS scripts to read a MySQL database via ODBC for people holding certain posts and create as needed accounts in the online Active Directory and apply SharePoint folder permissions depending on the post. Email the new user and the sysadmin, also remove persons or change perms as the posts changed.
More recently I was asked to change the data source to a REST API returning JSON when the database moved off prem. Easy and quick.
Try doing that in bash or cmd.exe.
It was about 30 lines of functional code by the time it was nice and maintainable for a non programmer sysadmin.
I could have done it in:
PERL - Ugh. Very powerful and I loved it when we were both young, but sadly the romance faded.
.Net 300 lines
c# 450 lines
PYTHON never did get the hang of those white spaces and tabs and far to prone to getting messed up by said sysadmins.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
