I haven't tried this project, but did switch to vterm from shell-mode a while back because it managed to fix most of the paper cuts when using shell-mode. I also used to create a lot of custom compilation buffers for things b/c it would create links to files that were helpful, but that has been less helpful to me. At the end of the day, there were papercuts that made shell-mode and compilation buffers less ideal and most folks were focusing on traditional terminal support.