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These are decent for climbing, but for the rest of life you also want the bowline, which is easy to untie after being loaded.

Ring bend should only really be used for webbing.

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I would add the alpine butterfly to haul stuff up or isolate/exclude compromised parts of the rope temporarily until you get to safety.

Definitely, it’s such a satisfying knot to tie too. And after that perhaps the figure 8 on 2 bights (bunny ears).

But then we are into the weeds…

alpine butterfly is by far the knot I use the most.

Preferably a bowline with a stopper knot or a inherently secure bowline like the End Bound Single Bowline (EBSB) or Scott's Locked Bowline

These seem to be more complicated versions of the Yosemite Bowline; do you have any info on that one? It’s been my go-to bowline for all applications (climbing, sailing), yet now I’m wondering whether it has some weakness I don’t know about.

I think the only weakness with Yosemite bowline is if tied wrong. Bowline backed by a double overhand is about as fast to tie and easier to check IMO, but if you are used to Yosemite then maybe it's the opposite for you.

Google "paci knots pdf", it raises two issues and demonstrate the potentially fatal one

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