I've been confused for a while about why pytest-xdist has been printing verbose progress percentages during my test runs even when I do not have -v option added anywhere.
Recently I experimented by removing log_cli=true from my pytest.ini file and - voilà - the verbose progress was replaced with the "dots" progress indicators I had been looking for.
I understand that pytest-xdist can't support live logs given its current implementation, but I would still love to have log_cli=true be the default behavior whenever xdist isn't enabled and get the default "dots" progress output whenever xdist is enabled.