STL Rope - when and where to use

Question

I was wondering under what circumstances you would use a rope over another STL container?

Answer 1

There is a lot of emphasis here on strings made up of characters, but rope is simply a 1D sequence with fast insertions and deletions (anywhere within the sequence).

It seems a bit surprising that such a basic capability is rarely required for anything (other than strings). Where would I use a rope of integers? I don't know, because manipulating it requires the indices to come from somewhere.

The best contrived real-world example would be where I'm making a UI to let the user view a dataset made up of thousands of images, and the user needs to be able to delete some of them and rearrange the order of the others.