Reminder that the pattern has the same risk as downloading software that you haven’t audited and verified the binary matches the source.
I'm not sure why you think pointing out the risk of regular unaudited unverifiable downloads is reductive as you haven't provided any supporting arguments, only snark. You seem like a cunt.
> throwing away the code that is run seems uniquely silly.
Neither traditional downloads and curl | bash are commonly stored long term for analysis.