"[...] without providing an alternative" is a rather strong position. There are multiple alternatives - for many users the underlying protocol changing to sftp

"[...] without providing an alternative" is a rather strong position. There are multiple alternatives - for many users the underlying protocol changing to sftp will allow them to just keep working as they always did, and they won't even notice the difference. For users copying to machines without a functional sftp subsystem there will be a small amount of workflow modification to do but there are many ways of securely copying files - even if the syntax is slightly different I don't think that means they don't count as alternatives.