My general approach has been to use someting along the lines of "is there a reason for not using sshd here?"

Also, quite recently I had an experience where I used a quick solution without thinking about alternatives; a colleague simply said "I worked on a similar thing some time ago, and we did XYZ", which was not only better than my solution but also prompted me to think about alternative solutions. In the end I went for a third, arguably best solution, which I would have never thought of if there wasn't for the colleague's comment.