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There's no reason to be condescending. Adding download friction for $0 of benefit for a developer makes no sense. I have had a BitTorrent client installed for more than 20 years, and I use it perhaps once a year these days (and only to download old video games that I can't get anywhere else).

It's been so long since I used a torrent that I don't know what program I'd use. I last used mutorrent but read they were putting crypto mining code in their client.

qBittorrent is cross-platform, open-source and malware-free. µTorrent has been not recommended for a while.

rtorrent or transmission are good CLI and GUI open source clients.

To be clear, I'm old too, vastly prefer applications rather than web browsers.