The fundamental problem is that the command line syntax of sftp is not
great. There's no fundamental reason that can't be fixed, without even
changing the existing sftp protocol. But as long as scp (and rsync)
exist the motivation to actually make the sftp command line tool nicer
is so low that even though people have talked about it for 20 years, it
hasn't happened yet. (And even though it would require orders of
magnitude less effort than has been expended complaining about sftp &
scp over the last 20 years...)
I don't see an obvious way forward until someone decides to actually
make the sftp client nicer to use. (No need to even talk about it: just
show up with a finished version that does what scp does!)
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