quibble -c bash should drop in an environment showing a prompt. That worked in 1.4.7 but does not in master :(
Bisected to 3c27b18cc535e8b238563a6f8106ad2d3b799003 which wrap subprocess in order to capture output. That was for T331061.
The subprocess calls got replaced by a wrapper around subprocess.Popen with stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT. That hides the fact the process is running from an interactive shell :)