Suit yourself, I don’t trust Windows already so, adding a third-party to that process doesn’t intrigue me in the slightest.

Paying Microsoft more money so they can give you less Windows is a very Microsoft thing to do.

They have a database of packages on their site. This page also popped up with info on how packages are moderated and stuff too.

As a former Windows user, Chocolatey is a great way to get used to a package manager through Windows. I used it to install stuff like hwinfo or wiztree.