I agree.
In general, most big FOSS projects I encountered that I needed provided
binaries for not only Windows, but also AT LEAST OS X, actually most of the
time they provide them for any of the big platforms.
Really thought the FOSS community as a whole has progressed beyond the point
of "compile it yourself".
It's not like your updates are so frequent it's a burden anyways... Last
version from 2015?That's great if no update is needed, but seeing how there's
not been a release since then a binary doesn't seem like that much to ask
for.

This also doesn't help the cause that we're trying to get MORE people to share
the workload of archiving the web.
So yeah, still sitting here looking at errors I'm expected to solve through
long googling or reading unformatted documentation...

I get that .txt is great and all, but only if you set your clock back to
1996.
And even then...

I'm this close to giving up, but then no other tool is available to my
knowledge that gets close to what HTTrack offers.

The usual case of a great team of coders, but nobody knows a thing about UX.
Oh unless we're talking about Windows.
Yes, Windows gets everything spoonfed, because you couldn't possibly expect a
Windows user to compile something, but everyone else is just craving to
resolve warnings and errors themselves, right?