It took me forever to get a working download, why not add a torrent download?

Downloads through shotcut.org or shotcutapp.com (you did not specify) are provided by GitHub, which uses Amazon S3 and possibly as well Amazon CloudFront. If you have trouble with Amazon, it might have been a temporary passing problem, or you will suffer performance problems with many sites because… it’s Amazon web services. No plans to provide torrents at this time because that would actually require more resources for me.