I love bash. I write a lot of bash too. It is a extremely powerful and useful language. But that also doesn't mean it is a good language.

There are many non-intuitive things, hence that pitfalls page I linked. You can't just deflect and say that the user is "holding it wrong". If it is difficult and unintuitive in how to "hold" it correctly, that's a design problem, not a user problem.

Despite bash being a terrible language, I still use it on a daily basis because it is useful. But don't conflate these things.