I'm a daily user of Git interacting with thousands of developers committing against the same repo. Here's my sole alias

l = log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%C(cyan)%d%Creset %s %C(white)- %an, %ar%Creset'

I'm not saying that "I'm so smart I don't need aliases" or that "you're so dumb that you need them" which is how my post is likely to be interpreted.

I'm saying that your past usage and experience may differ so much that it's hard to change the patterns set in your brain. I work with folks who have used Perforce for a decade and struggle with Git. They're super smart but Git is very different and therefore difficult for them at least at the start.

Generally speaking I would recommend avoiding sugar. I sometimes interview folks with so many Bash aliases on their own workstation they can barely navigate using vanilla Bash.