After more discussion, and testing, we’ve gone ahead and moved wget for 25.10.
This is made much easier because of wcurl being made available in the version of curl in 25.10. It is a drop-in replacement for the simple calls, and has the majority of wget functionality. For more complex cases, such as mirroring, wget is still the correct answer. This is all included in the release notes for 25.10 (once I hit submit in a bit…)