to my surprise, vim has built-in support (:help termdebug) for gdb. It's not as chiselled as some GUI debuggers but still usable and makes it (visually) easier to debug in terminal.

Accidently I also moved my mouse cursor over a variable while stopped at a breakpoint, in a terminal, over ssh, and there is a hovering balloon popping up with the current state of that variable. Mind blown.