"The extra keystrokes aren't going to have any meaningful impact on the amount of value I add to the projects I work on."
Nor will removing those keystrokes have a negative impact on the value you add.
Fear of forgetting the original commands is a reasonable argument against using aliases. It's very similar to the argument against using vim plugins for fear that you won't know how to use vi on servers or other peoples' machines. Nonetheless, most people use the plugins on their development machines which they feel make them the most productive in their day to day work. Same thing for aliases.
"It's very similar to the argument against using vim plugins for fear that you won't know how to use vi on servers or other peoples' machines."
Using vim plugins on your development machine should only add value to your standard commands. You still use standard vim commands to move around and manipulate text. And noone expects you to modify whole application on server, so you don't need those extra plugins for project manipulation, code completion (you still can type, right?) or highlighting
Nor will removing those keystrokes have a negative impact on the value you add.
Fear of forgetting the original commands is a reasonable argument against using aliases. It's very similar to the argument against using vim plugins for fear that you won't know how to use vi on servers or other peoples' machines. Nonetheless, most people use the plugins on their development machines which they feel make them the most productive in their day to day work. Same thing for aliases.