Excellent write-up.

I have done this on most of my "keeper" bikes (PX-10, etc).

Maybe I am being overly anal, but I then follow up crimping on a new cable end. It can easily be removed without damaging the soldered cable by squeezing out the crimp with a needle-nosed pliers.

This habit was born decades ago prepping my race machines (motorcycles and snowmobiles). I worked hard to minimize anything that would slice, impale, stab or otherwise shred me when I crashed (which was often). My pet peeves were carelessly installed cotter pins and those hard plastic zip-ties whose snipped off tag end was left razor sharp.