Appreciate the detailed answer! I will need to take a look at different terminals to see if there is any other one that can better fit my needs.

I prefer the idea of having one tool to manage everything: from local flow to remote sessions. And I usually do not view images in the terminal. But I'm willing to put them to the test and see if I like one of those more.

  > I prefer the idea of having one tool to manage everything: from local flow to remote sessions.

I'll add that your muscle memory will adapt to whatever pretty quickly. Like I was switching between a mac and a linux machine with a keyboard frequently and it only took a week to forget where my pinky needed to go to hit ctrl. Same is true even if your bindings for whatever are not identical local or remote (though mine are very similar, just differing in the prefix). So I'd say when testing things make sure you include a burn-in time, otherwise any change is going to make all other options feel worse.

  > I usually do not view images in the terminal.