To be clear, I understand the appeal of Fish and its reason to exist.

Oh yeah, you were clear about that, not to worry. 😊

I actually have plans to install Fish again and see how it goes.

Nice, I hope you do! You're welcome to join The School! 😄

I just brought up these shells to make a point about Fish being different and that I categorize it like those.

Yeah, I get you. Definitely a reasonable way of looking at it, too.

Personally I find fish to be a general-purpose shell, despite the fact that it is not POSIX-compatible. So in my mind it's in the same category as bash, csh, zsh, ksh, etc. It just does things very differently. 😄 But that's just my personal mental model.

Anyway I'm here if you ever want some tips on how to do stuff idiomatically in fish, if you ever do decide to get started. 👍🤝 Hit me up in the DMs or something.