Yes it's the same thing, but nobody ever rolls out protection for SSH. It's just a bad habit. When I look at the ecosystem around me I see mostly tech people u

Yes it's the same thing, but nobody ever rolls out protection for SSH. It's just a bad habit. When I look at the ecosystem around me I see mostly tech people using SSH, while the case I described was one where ordinary end users wanted to use SFTP as they had been using FTP in the past. So I suddenly felt a more urgent need for MITM protection. With techs I guess the responsibility is often shifted onto them to keep track of their known hosts.