The human response is telling: rapid-fire commands, a flurry of tickets, and a ritualized set of fixes—rename, re-run, and reconcile. Over time teams build resilience: watchers that alert on missed drops, checksum validation to catch corruption, and playbooks for common failure modes. Organizations face a choice: modernize to SFTP/HTTPS-based APIs with tokenized auth and audit logs, or double down on the known behavior of legacy FTP and surround it with compensating controls. The calculus weighs risk tolerance, compliance, cost of re-tooling, and the inertia of downstream consumers who depend on the current behavior.