A lot of 3rd party software handle space, or special characters wrong on Windows. The most common failure mode is to unnecessarily escape characters that don't need to be escaped.

Chrome's Dev Tool (Network)'s "copy curl command (cmd)" did (does?) this.

There is bunch of VS Code bug is also related to this (e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/248435, still not fixed)

It's also funny because VS Code is a Microsoft product.