"youtube-dl should be re-named to something like webvideo-dl" I think a better choice would be to fork/branch wget or curl and maintain a "supercurl" or "curl2

"youtube-dl should be re-named to something like webvideo-dl" I think a better choice would be to fork/branch wget or curl and maintain a "supercurl" or "curl2" whose superset of curl functions just happens to be the merged functions of youtube-dl.