Nope. Wget2 was required since we wanted to break some backward compatibility with Wget 1.x releases. So we decided that a major version bump is warranted. It

Nope. Wget2 was required since we wanted to break some backward compatibility with Wget 1.x releases. So we decided that a major version bump is warranted. It is also an entire rewrite of Wget in order to support HTTP/2. But this won't be required again when HTTP/3 or other protocols come out