I'm surprised about the zsh mention. It seems to run under Cygwin mostly, right? I guess under MSYS2, as well. But there is nothing that mentions this specialty.
Vim but not Emacs?
Yikes.
This is a flamewar waiting to happen...
Time for a GNU/Linux version
This is pretty neat. Is there a Mac equivalent?
Cygwin is not mentioned on there. I'd rate that critical to make Windows even moderately bearable. The main problem, of course, is that Cygwin is way too slow, but I'd rather suffer that live without it.
This isn't a curated list, this is just a list of most popular apps in every category.