Well, i use it daily, because it has:

- much more sane command line syntax

- automatic formatting and highlighting of json/xml/html

- automatically show received headers

- reverts to unproccessed output when redirected

PROTIP: use 'cat' to type the body manually:

     cat | http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken

You can then start typing the message body. When done, press ctrl+d (EOF) and the request will send and the reply will be printed.

And if you already have the body in a separate file, just pipe it through:

    cat mybody.json | http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken