Define "lots". Chrome dropped FTP support in late 2020 and basically nobody noticed. The vast majority of the remaining public FTP servers are also accessible over HTTP.
> I would expect Mozilla to advocate for more FTP as a cheap way of distributing files.
In what sense is FTP "cheap"? What makes it any different from HTTP in that regard?
Maybe people outside of the tech world failed to notice, but it was discussed here at the time:
a ton of government and scientific datasets are provided over FTP
It saves a lot of confused users at other government / scientific institutions, where the firewall blocks FTP.
Google found it a convincing enough argument to warrant re-enabling ftp support last year, in light of the pandemic: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/15/ftp_chrome_deprecatio...
That doesn't mean I'm against deprecation completely. But you can't pretend it won't affect people