I didn’t say it wasn’t painful, merely convenient for me.

I’m fine sticking with well established. Why would I need package management with a shell script? Bash has as many ways of handling errors as I give it. All this you mention are using functionality I can address in other ways but again, I never claimed it solved everything. I only prefer it due to knowing that if I solved the problem in bash, it stays solved for me.

Show us on the doll where the shell script touched you…