Re: "frankly, Google and pals would rather users opted for a dedicated transfer app"
I have and it was a pain to deploy and a pain to configure the clients, too. For whatever reason, FTP sessions can start in plaintext and then switch over to TLS mid-connection. It seems to break the whole purpose of TLS and I despised maintaining and supporting that mess.
SFTP is so much easier to deploy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
