I can use myself as an example: I have crohn's disease and I can take doses of 50000UI for some weeks, then 4000UI daily and after a year have my Vitamin D results as low as 20ng/ml.
Don't know about wget, but curl also provides libcurl [0] so you can embed it on your software. Also curl supports a wider range of protocols, as can be seen on [0].
I always try to care about the reviewers. Not too large PRs so they don't LGTM it instantly. Not too small PRs so they don't have to switch contexts multiple times a day or search through many smaller PRs to get context why new PR changes specific lines.