I’ll take your word for it. I could never wrap my head around PowerShell back when I still had a Windows install. Whenever I could, I would use either the DOS prompt or WSL/Ubuntu. I may not be great at Bash or DOS but at least I’m not having to resort to cargo culting to do anything. Probably a sign I’m getting old.

That it can fit on a 5 1/4" floppy with room to spare might have been important once, but I think we are long past that point. Micro takes 5 MB, Nano 3.

Looking into it further it looks a bit like NIH syndrome. Here’s Microsoft’s explanation: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/

Ok. Was this just a case of someone seeing if they can? Because my only thought here is “Why?”