Hello Leroy,
I was unhappy with the situation you described as well, and wrote a trivial
(but better -- although not perfect :)) replacement in C a while ago. You can
find it at [0]. It has served us well for the past five or so years, handling
hundreds of GB of WAL archives each day. Maybe you find it useful, too.
[0]: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/code/pg_archive_wal_segment-2.0.0/
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