Idiomatic Powershell is definitely verbose, but you get used to it (and you can disregard if you want). The verbosity can be used to make it more human readable, if done right. I use Powershell on a daily basis - the biggest thing that people have noted is passing objects, instead of text. At first it was weird, but now I find it really helpful. It makes it very easy to tie components together, without having to slice and dice text.

Another great feature is named parameter support. It's so much easier to deal with parameters than with other languages I've used.