"inconsistency" between the stricter feature comparisons list and this page
: at least the gpl3 for wget reads as other gpl because tool version is next on the list, and with regards to this and history of the tools that is referenced multiple places licensing must have changed during development so maybe there is a possible timeline for versions, features and licensing –

reading the text from top, it starts out with bullet points always mentioning both tools, and then for a while only mentioning curl before we are back for more mentions of both and also some points just mentioning wget – a bias was declared at the beginning of the text ...

because the tools use some of the same option flags or similar, a naive comparison of them, -o -O , and like no option curl gives nothing (we built wcurl for that)...

did
gnu guix system ship wget since v1.3.0 ?

did wget ship with ubuntu up until wcurl replaced it?

I've been using wget on fresh installs of windows 11 IoT, so I'm guessing it's also preinstalled on the home/pro versions.

(This might be a good time to get some practice with curl though, since I'm only downloading one file)

My mental model is that curl is a flexible tool for making network calls (of whatever sort you like) whereas wget is a dedicated for downloading and saving webpages or files.

That being said, I usually use curl for the latter use case too, out of muscle memory. But when I spent a month and a half downloading RedHat ISOs over a 28k dial up connection as a kid, you better believe I used wget and it's resume functionality.