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> It treats everything as text while we mostly need to manipulate structured information.
Looking at the examples given, it's more like Powershell, but with better compatibility with existing Unix text-based tools. Which is awesome.
It would need to be based on Illumos and not Linux, though... IIRC, the only existing open-source filesystem that supports anything akin to a resource fork is ZFS, and the Linux kernel doesn't have the syscalls readily access it (ZFS implements extended attributes as forks, but the kernel has really tight limitations on what can be done with xattrs, much tighter than what ZFS can do).
It's just a fantasy, though, and not something I have the skills or the time to do.
Which kind of makes Windows, with VS, .NET and Powershell, the closest to those environments.