How about Flesh (aka Relish)?
It's an attempt at making a Lisp-like login shell with job control.
(I'm not the author!)
More alternatives?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Command-line_shell#List_of_shells
I'm thinking about trying ion and maybe PowersHell...
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I think if you are crazy enough, you could set Emacs as your login shell?
(or perhaps try Midnight Commander?)