It can and it does especially combined with skills (context files). It can hit REST APIs with CURL just fine. MCP is basically just another standard.
Where it comes in handy has mostly been in distribution honestly. There's something very "open apis web era" about MCP servers where because every company rushed to publish them, you can write a lot of creative integrations a bit more easily.
Where it comes in handy has mostly been in distribution honestly. There's something very "open apis web era" about MCP servers where because every company rushed to publish them, you can write a lot of creative integrations a bit more easily.