This is how I feel about virtually all "personalize your environment" discussions. The sheer level of effort to ship preferred shells and tools and aliases and dotfiles and color schemes around the thousands of nodes I touch in a given year makes it all feel like a losing bet. It means every little change feels like a new insurmountable chore I just placed on myself.
Now, yeah, in the case of the terminal, it's probably not so bad because the remote system _probably_ won't override my settings, or it's probably relatively easy to force my side to take priority, but it still falls into the bucket of "huge chores with minimal payoff".
Also crotchety, grizzled ops person who invests too much time into solving the problem right in front of them and not enough time into stepping back and engaging in possibly-fruitful sidequests.
Now, yeah, in the case of the terminal, it's probably not so bad because the remote system _probably_ won't override my settings, or it's probably relatively easy to force my side to take priority, but it still falls into the bucket of "huge chores with minimal payoff".
Also crotchety, grizzled ops person who invests too much time into solving the problem right in front of them and not enough time into stepping back and engaging in possibly-fruitful sidequests.