Quotevulnerability of the Windows command line. The fact that a simple typo in character masking can be translated into a catastrophic delete command for an entire root directory without any additional safety nets is a problem. A much safer approach is to use only native PowerShell commands, which process paths much more robustly and prevent such drastic translation errors between different interpreter levels. However, even here there are simple commands that can wipe entire hard drives.

WTF are you talking about? Every OS' command line allows the user to force wipe the entire storage via single unintentional command. This was 100% user stupidity and had nothing to do with "Windows" or cmd.