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What's wrong with it?
They have their own version of curl built and they love to never update it. There's active vulnerabilities with their version of curl going on 6+ months now.
And you can't update it manually otherwise it breaks Windows as other libraries built into Windows relies on that specific version they're running.
See the bottom of the image. They aliased it to something called
Invoke-WebRequestI prefer the PSDownload module. It's lightweight and accounts for timeouts and the such.