It's clear at this point that terminal apps have lost to GUIs, but cURL is the one place where I think that's a shame. cURL /always just works/. It is predictable, consistent, transparent, and pretty easy to use in its simple forms, but with plenty of room for complexity if you wish to go the far. There's a reason libcurl is in everything from automobile infotainment systems to toasters. I'm glad to use a GUI over libcurl that doesn't also need a cloud to work, but at the end of the day, I find myself piping cURL to jq more than almost anything else.

Way back when Postman was but a mere Chrome plugin, I spent a lot longer than I'd have liked fighting with a request that should have been logging GET requests but wasn't. Imagine my surprise when I found that it was following Chrome's caching rules and not actually making my requests despite me intentionally firing off those requests. If only I had just used cURL...