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I used to know a guy that would put everything into aliases or scripts in order to avoid remembering them. It worked well most of the time but when something went wrong or was not covered by his scripts he would struggle a lot. He avoided learning the underlying commands and what they did and so could not adapt to things when circumstances changed even a little - which does happen quite a lot.
Which is probably another reason I don't use them. I don't like to set them up straight away while I am learning the tool and once I am comfortable with it a reverse history search is good just as good/quick as a true alias anyway and means I never forget what I am doing and can edit it on the fly easily when needed.