Faster to develop, maybe. Every time I try to do bulk uploads of files over HTTP I deal with APIs that are aggressively developer-hostile at both ends - bad er

Faster to develop, maybe. Every time I try to do bulk uploads of files over HTTP I deal with APIs that are aggressively developer-hostile at both ends - bad error messages, painful workflow, massive amounts of boilerplate, and missing features that you take for granted in an FTP client. Just because the technology is physically capable of doing it doesn't mean it's at all usable.