You fail to see how piping to bash worse than other awful choices? It is not. It is bashed by those who value reproduction and discoverability: * every person

You fail to see how piping to bash worse than other awful choices? It is not. It is bashed by those who value reproduction and discoverability: * every person receives same script, confirmed by signature * multiple mirrors, no single point of failure, no pull out by author (left-pad) * no silent update (browser addons) * tested to work on your system * clean remove of installed files * search in packages not in web (anti fishing) * hosted in secure environment * watched by many eyes