To be fair to FTP, it was written for NCP in the 70s. Network protocol design was a very different problem back then and NCP required incoming data on a differe

To be fair to FTP, it was written for NCP in the 70s. Network protocol design was a very different problem back then and NCP required incoming data on a different port to outgoing (usually with adjacent, odd/even, ports though). However I do completely and emphatically agree that FTP needs to die. There is no need for it in the modern era. We’ve had a whole plethora of better suited protocols since (I don’t agree HTTP is a good fit replacement but there isn’t a shortage of options out there) and in many cases FTP - even once you’ve applied the mountain of kludges and workarounds just to get it working with SSL behind two NAT’ed firewalls - still falls short of what a great many alternatives can already do. FTP not only needs to die; it should have already died 10 or 20 years ago.