I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is here.. The above text says there are better protocols and recommends their use over scp, but doesn't say scp is being

I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is here.. The above text says there are better protocols and recommends their use over scp, but doesn't say scp is being phased out or discontinued in the future. On *ix things stay around for pretty long. You still have ed and ftp on Ubuntu 20.04!