And it also looks like with winget, microsoft wants to push people to use the awful msix, where everything is locked down, much harder to edit and change and patch, much more complex.
It's the opposite of scoop, where everything sits in a single folder, and you can get rid of it easily, and even monkey patch and hack things.
The simplest possible install scenario would be: unzip this file, and add to path.
To uninstall: delete this folder.
Microsoft's solution [0]: if your app is in a zip file, repackage it as a msix/whatever proprietary technology.
To this day, you still can't update, or even uninstall stuff with winget.
But guess what it had baked in since day one (literally the third commit) [1]?
Telemetry.
[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/140
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/commit/67800b07618b5...