Feel free to promote your question to an issue (further context also appreciated)

Have you tried performing your own after a require cider.nrepl.print-method ?

Yup, it works then but I could not find a reliable place to put it that would guarantee that mine would get evaluated after without manually executing the form

user.clj might work, it has the semantic that it gets loaded automatically / before many things I don't recommend abusing those semantics much but I think this is pretty risk-free