The preference of shell history depends on the use case. In my case it's ever changing projects with different tech stacks that i need to remember set of commands to get SSO to get to container registry etc..

The solution for me was storing bash history separately for each vscode project - https://gist.github.com/Srakai/9f3788cdb07259d65d335ff150c38...

Scripts are cool, but imagine ever evolving script that is controlled by arrows and enter