This is the way.

But the downside is that you do get the Cider team constantly messaging and asking for reasons you won't switch. I gave feedback that their Vim bindings were broken (it would sometimes fail on holding down directional hjkl for no reason) but I'm not sure if they've fixed it since I left in 2023.

Cider is good for writing g3docs though.

I can't say for sure because I never used it, but neovim is the jam.

same! how do you deal with cloudtop latency though? sometimes my neovim is very slow and laggy because of the remote connection / network file system