> The thing that annoys me most is that there's no global shortcut for new terminal windows.
Did you look at skhd?
https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
I found it through the yabai window manager - but I'm starting to think I might be better off with something less ambitious - as macos apis are restricted and yabai needs a lot of privileges to work with screen/desktops :'(
But skhd is very simple and powerful - it can run commands and also insert text (I rebind some keys for brackets and tilde which are annoying on Mac intl layouts).
Eg:
# open terminal, blazingly fast compared to iTerm/Hyper
cmd - return : /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/MacOS/kitty --single-instance -d ~
alt - k : skhd --text "~"
The thing that annoys me most is that there's no global shortcut for new terminal windows. It's possible with some weird hacks but never really reliable or fast.