When I tried using chocolatey, you had to pay them in order to specify a default install directory rather than needing to include it explicitly in every command

When I tried using chocolatey, you had to pay them in order to specify a default install directory rather than needing to include it explicitly in every command. I don't know if this is still the case but I formed a deeply held grudge over it. When I tried using winget, it mostly worked quite well, but occasionally would fail horribly. It'll happily detect and offer to upgrade programs that were installed outside winget, for example - great feature!! - except one time when I tried doing this it installed a new instance to a default location instead of upgrading in place, so now I had two installations. I don't trust it. Scoop is simple and sensible and just works in exactly the way I expect it to. With the exception of needing to install scoop-search.