Ah you can use pop with other stashes too, thanks for the tip... though that feels a bit like a semantic misnomer (? unsure what term would be best to describe what I'm thinking - but 'pop' kind of feels like it should always be applicable only to the top element in a stack. I'd be scared that popping stash@{5} would apply all of stashes 1 to 5 at once lol).
I've been using `git stash apply stash@{n}`, which works just fine, but the stash is then not removed from your list and results in clutter.