You chose to be a downer on something you clearly aren't going to use. No I don't see your point because I'm not an ass.
It's incredible work regardless if it will "never run at full speed".
Not to be *that* person, but I'd just use something like WinSCP on Windows to connect to ftpd. I can't speak for Linux/macOS, but I'm not sure what this does better than the options we already have other than the "mark critical files" bit, which...