This is what I ended up doing, and it works great. I knew about aliases, but didn’t really use them at all - I didn’t know about bash functions though.

So now I have a few functions in .bashrc for short things and am just aliasing shell scripts for easy access to more complex tbings I don’t want cluttering the file

Oooh ty that makes a lot of sense. I was unaware of that functionality.

This should be the next step for me. When you do aliased commands, can they take arguments? Like to download a playlist with yt-dlp, could i do download-playlist [URL]?

For the unaware, they do this for livestock shows. If you can get your cow’s coat long (by cold exposure, ideally - makes them fluffy), you can shape the hair to give them the appearance of better conformation.

That can mean the illusion of a straighter back (basically by giving them like an eraser haircut along the back), more width in whatever areas might be lacking, a more balanced physique, etc.

It’s a whole thing and if you go to a livestock show you’ll see people meticulously grooming their cows like this