scp only appears to have simplicity because it outsources large parts of its functionality (e.g. glob expansion) to the destination host's shell. scp/rcp was a great protocol for 1981 (yes, that's when it was introduced) but not for 2019
And this leads to the question.. OpenBSD is famous for removing unwanted or outdated code. What makes scp a special case? Is it too used to be deprecated and removed?
its part of the ssh protocol, getting rid of cruft from network protocols is almost completely impossible unfortunately, because its going to destroy many people's workflows, in a way that they can not fix, guaranteed.
Yes, we all know about xkcd, no need to link guys.
