For me defaults matter... 99% of the time when I want to use wget or curl, I want to do it to download a file, so I can keep working on it, from the filesystem.

For me defaults matter... 99% of the time when I want to use wget or curl, I want to do it to download a file, so I can keep working on it, from the filesystem. wget does that without any parameters. Curl requires me to remember and provide parameters for this obvious usecase. So wget wins every time.