Still would love if desktop terminal emulators would implement the zmodem receiver side, so that you can ssh into some host of your choice and just type "sz" to copy arbitrary files of your choice onto your local system.
cp -r
This type of automatic transfer makes it very convenient to generate figures on a server (where the data lives) and then view them locally. It’s a much better workflow than having to use sshfs or scp.
What I wrote is really quite similar to an old transfer program like zmodem with the added feature of auto opening a file if I choose.
It doesn’t matter if you mount a remote server locally… unless your data is of a trivial size, you still want to do the processing remotely.
I see this as a theory vs practice difference. In theory having one unified file system is great and the way to go. In practice… there are issues.