That's what they're saying, though? They want to stop running commands through the shell, and start running them directly, with exec() family of functions. SSH'

That's what they're saying, though? They want to stop running commands through the shell, and start running them directly, with exec() family of functions. SSH's protocol currently makes that impossible. Sometimes, I need to run a command on a remote machine, and SSH is basically the protocol/tool for that. But I don't have a choice, but to involve the shell on the remote. (There might not be a shell locally: I've done SSH with libraries with Python. But you still have to escape for the remote's shell, and that is what makes this annoying.)