> You also lose the killer feature of Vim, which is being able to work over an SSH connection on any sort of device, even those that don't have a GUI.
The gold standard for remote development is Visual Studio Code. All of the UI stuff happens locally, and it transfers files and runs commands remotely. It's way less chatty than going over SSH or an X11 connection.
I heavily disagree. From experience, working over SSH with tmux allows me to work with my editor, run commands, start up various qemu instances, start debuggers etc, and other tools that have their own TUIs. I think remote VSCode makes sense to people who have very narrow needs to edit specific projects rather than live on a remote machine.
The terminal window from VSCode still gives you all of that, with some extra ergonomics from the GUI. No need to remember ctrl b + % to split a Tmux window, scrolling and find just works, no need to install plugins to save sessions.
The gold standard for remote development is Visual Studio Code. All of the UI stuff happens locally, and it transfers files and runs commands remotely. It's way less chatty than going over SSH or an X11 connection.