To be fair the example above is easier to remember than:

  ls -l --sort=size | head -n 5 | tail -n 4 | awk '{print $5 " = " $9}' | numfmt --to iec | jq --raw-input --null-input 'inputs | gsub("\r$"; "") | split(" = "; "") | select(length == 2) | {"s": (.[0]), "n": .[1]}'

Yeah... https://www.sophiajt.com/case-for-nushell/ makes a really good case for Nushell as an alternative to Bash.

Unfortunately, I don't think Nushell brings much benefit for folks who already know Bash enough to change directories and launch executables and who already know Python enough to use more complicated data structures/control flow/IDE features

I'm still rooting for Nushell as I think its a really cool idea.

Ok if it's not for you. But there is of course a very good reason — work with objects in the pipeline instead of "dumb text". Also PowerShell and nushell are quite nice to learn, whereas Bash is absolutely horrible.

Well, the reason is you can stop using Bash. If you never write Bash scripts already then you probably don't need it (and also congratulations on doing things right), but most people at least have lazy colleagues that write shell scripts. One day I'd like them to be not awful.