> Nobody should expect it to be maintained in any way.

Which is the exact problem of "I could rewrite this in a weekend!" scenario with curl, right?

It depends if the rewrite is meant as a joke or a serious minimal implementation.

I don't think it does. curl has been maintained for nearly 25 years now; there's a benefit to that, and I'd need someone to come up with very compelling reasons to write a new implementation before abandoning it beyond "my code is shorter".