The main use of FTP these days seems to be cheap web hosting. I'm not sure why there aren't more hosts who support SCP/SFTP but the vast majority of web hosts

The main use of FTP these days seems to be cheap web hosting. I'm not sure why there aren't more hosts who support SCP/SFTP but the vast majority of web hosts seem to only offer FTP access and that's what less technical users (e.g. non-developer Wordpress admins) have come to expect.