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Yeah, same as Ctrl-Shift-R in the browser for me. Even when I'm running a hot reloading server on my project I'll start off pretty much every manual test with a hard refresh because it's so trivial that it's easier than dealing with the 1/500 chance of something going weirdly wrong with the hot reloading and being difficult to debug.

Easier:

Save a file, see the result instantly.

In a browser, terminal, etc. Using live reload, auto test, Rails class reloading, and so on.

If you have multiple monitors, you don’t have to lose keyboard focus to see a change visually.

tiling window managers solve this problem _really_ good (atleast dwm/awesome, but probably everything else, too).

Developer ergonomics are made of an accumulation of small things like this.

Same for me - I even do it for things that don't really need a server restart to take effect, just because it's an ultra-quick reflex. It's a non-issue really.