Indeed. Bash has, or can be configured, to have almost all the features listed in this article. The article is really a testament to the power of defaults. The bash maintainership is extremely conservative about enabling new features by default even when these features are unalloyed good.

For example, I contributed bracketed paste support to bash and readline. Yay! No more inadvertent command execution! No security problems pasting shell commands from web pages! You'd think we'd want that feature enabled by default, right?

Well, no. The feature will be off by default. For reasons.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-10/msg00211....