Comment by Waterluvian

"Lazy" isn't a bad thing. When I see a curl-bash command from a reputable site, I'm not about to waste my time evaluating it. Consider step one to three from this site https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/... or get-pip instructions from this one: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/

But I agree with your sentiment. If the exact same step was to `apt install ecs-cli` I would just do that and not feel any inconvenience about it.