Well one could argue that having a shell script invites people to review it, then the article's behaviour could change it. So people might trust it when they ot

Well one could argue that having a shell script invites people to review it, then the article's behaviour could change it. So people might trust it when they otherwise wouldn't have. But... they should just download it locally, verify, and run. Whereas for a binary, they might go verify a signature or something more severe.