Also, more and more tools are cross platform and man pages aren’t a thing on windows (are they?).
Under vim's default configuration, manpages are a single keypress away. If you press "K", vim opens a window with the manpage of the word under the cursor. It happens instantaneously, and it uses the same font and color scheme than your code. I would really hate it if it opened a browser!
You should take your own description of your beliefs as a red flag to reassess them.
I use a few tools that don’t have man pages and I always find it jarring that I have to leave the CLI to get some basic usage info.
There is already tooling to generate manages and online/html docs from a single source. Reasonable thing seems to be “do both”. I’m not persuaded by “Windows is leaking.”
What, and ... what?