Re: "FTP is an insecure protocol and there are no reasons to prefer it over HTTPS"
"One reason to prefer it over HTTP is that is much easier to manage remote files with FTP than with HTTP - and WebDAV is not exactly a solution - plus not every machine and his e-dog runs a web server."
It has never been easy to manage remote files through any browser. Some allowed you to drag and drop files up over ftp but most were one-way, download only. And no renaming, deleting etc.
And despite its name sftp is a new protocol over a SSH transport layer with remote management functionality. You can't just slap some TLS on the existing ftp protocol to implement it - it is a substantial thing to implement in its own right.
If you want to manage a remote server you should be using a dedicated client. Either the console or something like Filezilla which supports ftp, sftp and scp. Chances are that anyone doing stuff over ftp was already doing that to begin with.
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