I want to read more, but sadly curl is the only article on the site.

Or don't. Alternatives are available - often with nicer interfaces!

IMO the main reason to use curl is that Chrome lets you copy web requests as a curl command line.

things like oauth, binary websockets, loads of headers, etc all are way worse in curl than others. postman is terrible but there are plenty of other gui/cli options

I offer a compromise of using python's requests library. It's got most of the listed benefits, but I like python better than shell scripting.

It's weird that I've been seeing job posts that list postman as a required skill. It's not great.

I did use "Bruno" for a while to have a GUI for making requests. It was fine.