Also the user experience is decent. I never actually liked how Windows handled zip files. With WinRAR I can just open the file and run stuff from there. With Windows it has not been that simple.

I never truly got around the thing how zips look like fake folders.

For sure, right click extract to folder is my go to.

The WinRAR GUI also provides some neat features I haven't seen before, or at least not presented easily. I needed to delete a particular file from a bunch of archives (ZIPs) that was in some of them, but not in others and I didn't know which archives had it. WinRAR can search multiple archives within the archives for a specific file or extension, shows the output in the file pane and I was able to delete them all in one hit. Very niche feature, guaranteed not to appear in Windows when support is added. I'm a slave for heavy functionality software - it's bloat until you need it.