I don't see this as an either/or. It's great to be able to remote SSH into a personal server and do whatever you need to do to tweak and deploy software via the CLI alone. And I do believe those are skills every developer should cultivate.
But for day-to-day dev tasks, having VSCode/code-server/Zed/Neovim/whatever floats your boat, with all the lovely extensions and fonts and syntax highlighting and type hints and whatever you like to use, that's awesome and nothing to shrink back from.
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I don't see this as an either/or. It's great to be able to remote SSH into a personal server and do whatever you need to do to tweak and deploy software via the CLI alone. And I do believe those are skills every developer should cultivate.
But for day-to-day dev tasks, having VSCode/code-server/Zed/Neovim/whatever floats your boat, with all the lovely extensions and fonts and syntax highlighting and type hints and whatever you like to use, that's awesome and nothing to shrink back from.