Absolutely. There were a couple moments where questions like "isn't this just sftp?" coming up in my mind.

Ultimately, these files are hosted in our object storage service so it should theoretically be easier to scale out if necessary.

Further, we tried to provide more modern ways to manage projects via promotions and rollbacks, github actions, to make it feel a little more comfortable to devs in 2023.

Some folks cannot afford hosting, including the time to set it up. Until recently*, it was pretty difficult to find providers who would take monero, as well. User-anonymizing, free hosting of static content has some moral value to it.