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I also did this for over 20 years (well, with screen(1) back in the day first) and I managed a lot of scripts for rsync(1)ing configs and source code. Emacs was designed to run as a GUI and makes heavy use of control sequences that affect terminal emulators (such as C-c, C-s, C-q, C-h, C-z, etc.); I spent considerable time forcing Emacs to work nicely in my terminal under tmux (where I've always used M-t as my prefix key, but that's a story for another time!), and I had a pretty nice terminal workflow that way, but it was laughably and ironically a PITA to get Control-H and backspace working in a way that was satisfiable to me in all cases of all layers (terminal emulator -> tmux -> zsh -> emacs). I eventually gave up on that for reasons related to an insane thing I discovered and make heavy use of, called Org Mode, which I primarily use to organize and maintain and evaluate code blocks of scripting languages with a REPL integration (the whole reason I switched to Emacs one day in a fury of ragequitting Vim was to try Robe Mode). So I now run Emacs in the GUI as demigods intended, but this will likely not be an option for you given your SSH workflow.
You'll want to invest the time in learning Magit, which will change your life once you get the hang of it (and I was a heavy user of Fugitive in Vim previously!), and it's unlikely you'll find a better integration with GDB anywhere else on the planet than with Emacs, though I can't say that empirically. You just need to take the plunge and start learning it, then cut over and take the hit in productivity one day when you're feeling adventurous. You'll ultimately become far more powerful than you've ever been. Especially if you delve into elisp over time. I use Spacemacs, which is bloated and has bugs, but it has so many features that I haven't undertaken the massive endeavor to replace it from scratch yet.
You'll want to invest the time in learning Magit, which will change your life once you get the hang of it (and I was a heavy user of Fugitive in Vim previously!), and it's unlikely you'll find a better integration with GDB anywhere else on the planet than with Emacs, though I can't say that empirically. You just need to take the plunge and start learning it, then cut over and take the hit in productivity one day when you're feeling adventurous. You'll ultimately become far more powerful than you've ever been. Especially if you delve into elisp over time. I use Spacemacs, which is bloated and has bugs, but it has so many features that I haven't undertaken the massive endeavor to replace it from scratch yet.