It depends on the use case. Bash code can be elegant, Python code can be ugly. I'm not saying those are the average cases but complex code regardless of the language often is ugly even with effort to make it more readable.
Oh I get it. Sometimes bash is the right tool for the job. I think that’s just mostly an unfortunate historical artifact though. It’s hard to argue it’s intuitive or “clean” or ${POSITIVE_ADJECTIVE} in the average case.
