Learning a little vim (i.e. how to open multiple buffers and tabbing between them) as well as learning a little tmux and a little htop has made my experience with ssh way more palatable.
I recently went through a whole big tooling push where I switched from neovim with a set of configs and plugins I've been pulling along for a decade or two, to (eventually) LunarVim and mostly the stock config.
But, in screen LunarVim and kakoune and other editors I was playing with were totally jacked. So I finally made the switch to tmux and oh-my-tmux.
htop is good, but check out btop. https://github.com/aristocratos/btop