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> "It's still distributed by default with all versions of Windows where it is labelled “Powershell” with no qualifier."

No, it's called "Windows PowerShell", look: https://i.imgur.com/119yPbK.png

> "so being ultrapedantic about one particular presentation of it, isn't necessarily a great approach."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/ - official documentation has sections for "PowerShell" and "Windows PowerShell 5.1".

You have outdated information. You can either update your information and use the current names, or you can pretend a tool from 4 years ago which has been deprecated and superceded at least twice, is the current one, the same way you can pretend that Windows 8 is the current desktop and be angry about the full screen start menu that "Windows has".



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