I agree. There is a lot of screen estate these days, even on laptops, so why not save the shell window for stuff that is actually useful in the shell window and

I agree. There is a lot of screen estate these days, even on laptops, so why not save the shell window for stuff that is actually useful in the shell window and that can only be displayed in that window? The current git branch makes sense, as does the current directory, but I'm having a hard time finding the point in anything else cluttering my shell window.