Well it’s not the concept but the implementation that is at fault. From persistent random WinRM failures, sudden things breaking and the whole thing wrapping rancid bits of WMI and COM which leak through regularly, it’s just pain. On top of that the interface is somewhat flakey and slow. Plus some of the semantics feel like going back to circa 1995 Perl. Oh and don’t get me started on the nightmare that is script signing and security which really does nothing useful other than get in the way.
It really feels immature.
The biggest travesty is when it is integrated into something else such as ansible, packer, chocolatey etc where it will cost you a couple of days occasionally due to some obscure issue hidden behind even more layers.
