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And what is wrong with (a well-structured hierarchy of folders containing) text files (i.e. scripts) full of curl commands? You can also track and version them in git, automate them, etc.

Genuinely asking of course, because I never got the "point" of Postman vs. curl, except maybe for non-technical people.

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GUI is slightly nicer UI for many including myself if you need to iterate over things like parameters, headers, paths and even body data.

Curl is perfectly fine for some repeatable copy paste, but if you need to change bits by bits I feel GUI brings lot of benefits.

A UI is much more discoverable than CLI arguments.

Skimmable perhaps, man pages exist even if people don't like to read them.

Is your argument that a man page is more discoverable than a UI?

I have had that experience, yes. Contrast poking around with PuTTY vs man ssh.

Man pages have prose, examples, 'see also' notes.

They surely could put some cheat sheets at the beginning but that doesn't excuse a resistance to reading them.