But we consider Bash an abomination. All the developers have been entirely free to build a new shell and that no-one has in 20 years of development by the cream of the Unix team and use by some excellent coders shows us that this is the way we want to work.
We have no need for command history. Mostly because we use better tools such as Sam and Acme to run arbitrary shell commands.
I shall repeat, like I end up doing on most plan9 threads, I have never had the need for command history in 15 years of using plan9. Ten years of that was full time software development and system administration in plan9.
Not using an OS because it doesn't have a shell like Bash is short sighted. These kind of arguments are why most of us don't even turn up to threads about plan9. It's the same 3 things over and over. No command history, doesn't have Linux programs, doesn't have a native HTML4 compliant web browser
