Why?

Is it the best out there? No. But it does work, and it provides me with updates for my tools.

Random curl scripts don't auto-update.

Me downloading executables and dropping them in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin or wherever I'm supposed to drop them [0] also isn't secure.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487921

Also, I find it is usually better to follow up with something like:

'It's better to use Y instead of X BECAUSE of reasons O, P, Q, R & S' vs making a blanket statement like 'Don't use X, use this other insecure solution instead', as that way I get to learn something too.

I use mise to update binaries. Especially TUIs that are not on the arch repos. It supports several backends, from cargo crates to GitHub releases, to uv for python and so on.

So one doesn't really need homebrew that has Linux as third class citizen (with the 2nd class empty)