This, I hope, is not a derail:
For years now, I’ve been requesting that tool modifiers be more fully customizable. I do not understand why we can’t choose whatever tool we like, rather than the same pre-ordained combinations that have not changed since at least N2, I think!
I don’t know anything about what it takes to program something like that, but it seems like an elegant answer to the OP’s identified issue.
Chewy