Same in my experience, but SFTP itself isn't exactly great either. Especially when your connection is less than ideal and you're working with large-ish files.
SMB tunneled over SSH works better in many cases, but of course that has it's own set of problems and is a huge pain to set up.
SMB tunneled over SSH works better in many cases, but of course that has it's own set of problems and is a huge pain to set up.