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The problem is it doesn’t go much beyond that, so you’re limited by SSH roundtrip latency and it’s a pain to parallelize (you end up either learning lots of options or mitogen can help). However fundamentally you’re still SSHing to machines, when really at scale you want some kind of agent on the machine (although ansible is a reasonable way to bootstrap something else).
Cloudflare is probably just this generation’s Crypto AG: https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cloudflare_ssl_added_and_rem...
:help ins-completion gets the useful docs, Vim's own docs are very good and worth spending some time learning how to use, so you can learn Vim itself better.
Another favorite of mine is 'gf' to open the filename under the cursor, very useful combined with ^X ^F.
Omni completion is also useful: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Omni_completion although you're better off with plugin that uses LSP now, for example https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
Using RIPE atlas probes to get RTT to the IPs from known locations is close to your idea and probably the best anyway.