The verbosity might be annoying at first, but it does make long pipelines easier to read. This enforced verbosity makes it easier to read than a linux pipeline using some arcane `qw -eRTy` command with no rhyme or reason.
So, as a fellow dyslexic. Powershell supports complete tab-completion for arguments (even with custom commands), and that includes doing things like writing "get-*" and hitting tab to see possible commands.