Yeah, I definitely see your point. I haven't used all of those things extensively, but I've got to really agree with you on subprocess and GUI stuff. I'd love to be able to write Python instead of Bash for pretty much all scripting, but working with and connecting subprocesses is a massive pain. I think logging and command line parsing work well, but each seem probably less intuitive than they have to be. But I think the library is pretty awesome for the most part.