It’s quite some time ago, but I believe it ignores files named “.editorconfig” (if you have it in your repo/folder), which ended up doing something wierd in editorconfig-mode (or what it’s called) when tramp was running.

Not an answer to what you really ask;

I have had editorconfig do this to me in doomemacs. Fixed with

(setq tramp-ignored-file-name-regexp ".editorconfig")

Whatcha get in that log

Even the boxes are smiling!

I’ve done similar things for mismatched python dependencies in a broken Airflow setup on GCP, and got amazingly good results pointing me in the right direction to resolve the conflicting package versions. Just dumped a mile long stack trace and the full requirements.txt on it. Often worth a shot, tbh