I hear you, but every time I ask "what are you doing that you need SSH?", the answer comes down to "well I have these crappy random applications and I don't hav

I hear you, but every time I ask "what are you doing that you need SSH?", the answer comes down to "well I have these crappy random applications and I don't have enough visibility into the system or the apps." For those cases, I think SSH is a crutch that keeps the system from maturing. Another way to think about it is, if you're an SRE, you want to eliminate toil, and an interactive SSH terminal is toil.