Check out enshittification and the rot economy. I feel like those two terms encompass pretty much what we are seeing these days

I’m using Kitty. Kitten ssh is smooth as I ssh into other machines a lot. I also love being able to split the screen and have tabs. I use Kitty session a lot, I have a pre-configured yaml file that just sets up the terminal for me. I like the keyboard shortcuts too.

Ksnip does the trick for me