Requires learning midnight commander and how to connect it to remote hosts.
But the correct answer is ansible or it’s ilk- not being told that managing things one by one is “fine”.
Or like in nano, relegating oneself to managing files character by character.
Personally I look with pity at people who invest in cargo-culting the idiosyncrasies of systems from ancient times which simply don't apply anymore.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
[1] https://man.archlinux.org/man/mcedit.1