I've never really understood this argument. Using vim locally with a bunch of plugins and then vanilla vim remotely is really the exact same thing as using any

I've never really understood this argument. Using vim locally with a bunch of plugins and then vanilla vim remotely is really the exact same thing as using any other editor locally and vanilla vim remotely.... especially if you are using vim bindings in said other editor! In any event, I just mitigate this problem by not overriding a bunch of standard behaviour. Also, none of the many plugins I use modify any standard behaviour in any serious way, they just help speed up certain actions when working in a large code base. There is very minimal context switch for me when editing a file remotely.