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Whenever I read FTP, I assume very legacy, very insecure protocols.

Mostly because FTP has been considered insecure and kinda deprecated since 1999, and we've had better things (eg: SFTP) since.

So, for somebody in their fourties it might be a better name, but for somebody younger, it's definitely misleading.

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yeah but starting around 2005 if you said "ftp server" it was implied that you would still use encryption via sftp or ftps. Few people will actually spell out sftp server.

Sftp servers are still the backbone in a lot of datatransfers.

Apparently APIs are really hard for most companies.

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