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Probably still included because ed is occasionally used in shell scripts.
It's good in an emergency over a slow or noisy connection. Back in the 90s, I once talked a non-computer user through repairing a corrupted config file, over the phone. ed was good for that.
Oh man, that's also a good point! A phone conversation is a lot like a printed readout.