I suppose you can sometimes do `mget x.csv` on FTP (if the client supports it?), but with wget you can do:

wget -r -A 'x.csv' https://example.org/

(where 'x' is an asterisk, but HN's formatting eats it)

More work, in the sense that it's more command line options to remember, I agree, but otherwise it's easier to integrate in scripts and much more flexible than mget.

(I don't miss FTP for the sysadmin side of maintaining those servers.)