Sorry, but with that attitude, why use curl, and not just netcat or socat? Or just write bash scripts manipulating sockets directly?
I think you underestimate a bit what postman can do. Just a few things: import openapi specs and do pretty complex requests with a few mouse-clicks, supports various auth mechanisms (oauth/jwt/...), allows for some scripting, run mock versions of an API spec, generate request code for various languages and frameworks, and yes, copy a request you created with point&click as a cli curl command.
On top of that, you can easily save and share this in teams.
Yes, people would just script netstat. I mean the argument is getting ridiculous, as another sibling points out, cURL would be nowhere today if it wasn't FOSS.
Its not obvious that CURL would be as popular as it is if it started with a pay to use model. Maybe it never got the attention it has and never got popular?
I think you underestimate a bit what postman can do. Just a few things: import openapi specs and do pretty complex requests with a few mouse-clicks, supports various auth mechanisms (oauth/jwt/...), allows for some scripting, run mock versions of an API spec, generate request code for various languages and frameworks, and yes, copy a request you created with point&click as a cli curl command.
On top of that, you can easily save and share this in teams.