If I'm interactively composing something I do very much like pipes and shell commands, but if it's a thing I'm going to be running repeatedly then the improved maintainability of a python script, even if it does a lot of subprocess.run, is preferable to me. "Shuffling clunky objects around" seems more documented and organized than "everything is a bytestring".
I had the same question. But when I saw how many apps he supports, and it comes with decent fonts... I'm quite tempted. I'm normally one of the cheapskates. But getting consistent and good themes across my desktop? That's a hell of a lot of work for something I'd really appreciate.
But different strokes and all that.