Agree, the recency sort sort ends up normalizing history over time anyway. Use fzf with your history to see more than one match a time anyway, and you can at least glance through a few of the iterative commands you went through if your history isn’t “normalized” yet. I like keeping shell history dead simple— it’s a stack of executed statements. Period.

I do pull very often run things into functions and source them into every shell session. Usually only parameterized things that aren’t trivial to use reverse search for.