In my experience, rsync is a tool that's worth it despite not knowing most of what it can do. I use `-a` to get the behavior you want (which is superset of a bu

In my experience, rsync is a tool that's worth it despite not knowing most of what it can do. I use `-a` to get the behavior you want (which is superset of a bunch of options like preserving filesystem permissions, copying recursively, and other things I haven't bothered to memorize) `--info=progress3` to show progress/network speed updating on a single line (no idea what the other progress options do, but this one does what I want), and if I'm transferring something that's not already compressed, I use `-z --compress-choice=zstd`. After those flags, it's basically a drop-in replacement for scp (`remote:srcpath dstpath` for copying to local and `srcpath remote:dstpath` for copying to remote).