I don't think it's fair to say Microsoft hijacked the curl command. It's just an alias for a powershell cmdlet. Powershell is definitely not perfect but theres less pitfalls than bash (string quoting, etc; there's loads: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls). I think powershell was/is a step in the right direction, but in that respective I also think Nushell is a massive improvement on top too.
All of this is opinion though, I just prefer the stuff you get out the box you don't with bash.
All of this is opinion though, I just prefer the stuff you get out the box you don't with bash.