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.

If you ask anyone which software they use to archive or extract files on Windows, chances are that they either use WinRAR or 7-Zip. After all, these are the two most popular tools for this purpose.

Are you experiencing the Checksum error when trying to extract a RAR file using WinRAR? WinRAR is a popular file archiver tool for Windows with some great features ...

Windows 11 is finally getting native support for RAR files, ending the need for third-party apps like WinRAR. Microsoft has announced (h/t: The Verge) that Windows 11 will natively support RAR files.