

I see your point but only partly agree. I can see why curl should be treated like infrastructure but I can also see that system quickly being misused as per above.
I strongly believe in having public money create public code, as in Lenas link (https://publiccode.eu/en/) elsewhere in this thread. As the funding isn’t infinite I believe that is where it will create the most public good - at least in the long run. Of course there will be outliers and exceptions, and maybe curl would be one of those, I just don’t want to see our money flowing straight into the pocket of another tech billionaire with good lobbyists in Brussel.
According to this old forum post it is often a file permission error:
https://forums-old.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?698310-Patch-dat-files-stuck-at-88
You could always try giving the lotr directory a 2777 and see if that helps.