Congratulations to the developers of nano. It's a timeless modern terminal editor which can be operated by novices as well as experts.
It lets you take basic shell config with you when you ssh. You could ensure you always had your $EDITOR set to vim and have a basic vim config ready.
It's also really nice to take my prompt with me and not have random vanilla/terrible shell prompt that's set on whatever server.
However, I can imagine many scenarios when this fails if the target machine has a very different software version setup (and older different Linux distribution, for instance). Would require some fine tuning of parameters, but sounds promising!