If you have a ZIP file on your Windows 11/10 computer and you right-click on it, it shows the Extract All option to get data from inside a compressed folder. Sure this is a useful feature that helps ...
What you are describing is most certainly not the default behavior of winrar. When you use winrar and give it a path it will write directly to that location. This is easily verified with filemon.
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