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That's true, I was mostly speaking to that specific use-case. It certainly sounds like it has generally superior functionality to ls, but for me personally it doesn't beat out the utility of already being present on every linux system I'll touch.
That's unlike something like rsync which is genuinely more useful than scp for anything other than simple file transfers.
Yeah that's fair, I only use it on systems where I'm in full control and use enough to get all my toys set up properly, which goes for all the commands in the article. I've just aliased ls to eza though, so it'll mostly (options are a bit different) keep working on any system I'm on.