That's fine on my computer, but if I'm logging into a server I'm not going to do that every time.

This seems worse then remembering, because you still have to remember that your safe-by-default command is unsafe-by-default everywhere you're not usually.

rm doesn’t provide an action summary, does it?

Last time I used the interactive option, it needed me to press Y once for every file.

If you have a list of 200 files you’re probably not even reading by the end.