Nothing wrong, if don't spend daily hours editing text (or code).

so ditch this nonsense and use a better distro?

Before Void I was using Debian (then Devuan), and I used aliases for the package manager commands there too.

Anyway, I think the "the program name is too long" argument is even worse.

Why make the effort to switch to Firefox, if the browser that came installed with your device works?

Or, more realistically, people don't even grok the concept of a web browser.

xbps felt like a million characters to type which I hated

Ever heard of alias?

For me it's alias pks='xbps-query -Rs' and alias pki='xbps-install' (package search and package install).