It's just a bit more involved to use for this use case, especially if the data is confidential (having to set the private flag so clients don't publish the info

It's just a bit more involved to use for this use case, especially if the data is confidential (having to set the private flag so clients don't publish the infohash to DHT, using a built-in tracker in your client, transport layer encryption not provided by default). Things like Resilio are fine, they build on top of the protocol and provide a different UX.