Using ssh and screen gives you a 1975 interface to the computer. You've just made your own dumb terminal, doing EVERYTHING on the remote system except printing

Using ssh and screen gives you a 1975 interface to the computer. You've just made your own dumb terminal, doing EVERYTHING on the remote system except printing out a stream of characters to the local screen. It's not even as smart as the Blit that Rob Pike designed in 1982; at least that had the capability to fetch configuration from the server to set itself up.