I suppose this helps with managing sessions specifically during testing, but IMO the "disgusting" curl command looks fine to me. The UX of iteratively running commands to change request values instead of changing a single curl command seems worse to me. With the curl approach you can see exactly what is being sent at all times, you can press `v` (or `C-x C-e` if you're a masochist) to edit the command in $EDITOR, and the command remains in your shell history for quick lookup.

I think that all these tools that try to replace curl for the sake of improving UX miss the mark in some way. Just use curl, and wrap it in some aliases or shell scripts if you must. curl is brilliantly designed, already has great UX, and is available everywhere.

I’m running OpenBSD (Debian before) and I’m using more and more tools like ps, top, and curl. They’re available everywhere. And you mostly have the same queries, so you can turn them into something easier to type if you want to.