Basically a shell script with a curl invocation in it, except you need to install extra software to execute it. Misses the point of the article.
It doesn't need to render a fucking Chromium instance to make a web request. It doesn't depend on a service to run. It doesn't require an "Enterprise" subscription for basic features.
The 'egregious' things are charging to share what will fit very well in SCM (preventing real automation)... and breaking due to Online First/only. It makes sense to require the endpoint I'm talking to. Why would Postman need AWS/us-east-1 [0] for a completely unrelated API? Joyful rent-seeking.
cURL, your suggestion (hurl), or HTTPie all make far more sense. Store what they need in the place where you already store stuff. Profit, for free: never go down. Automate/take people out of the button-pushing pattern for a gold star.