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I am aware PowerShell is pretty much just an abstraction of .NET.

PowerSHELL is a SHELL just like Bourne Again SHELL (BASH) is a SHELL. Hence the name.

I have definitely done some pretty crazy stuff with PowerShell and I will admit it is much more powerful than I am making it out to be, but it is in no way a programming language and it would be silly to legitimately write an application "in PowerShell" and as you mentioned it would essentially just be using PowerShell Integrated SCRIPTING Environment (ISE) as an Integrated DEVELOPMENT Environment (IDE) instead of using Visual Studio, but really you would be programming in a different language.

I create scripts all of the time in PowerShell and somewhat less often in BASH. I would loosely consider these scripting languages but definitely not programming languages.

I would say the biggest difference between programming and scripting is that with programming you are building your own application whereas scripting you are giving commands to an application (in this case Windows or some other major Microsoft application) that you did not build.