For example, I can go to the website of my county’s registrar and pull up the formation and renewal documentation of my LLC with just a last name.
I don’t think you can effectively hide ownership of property without a shell corporation. The Corporate Transparency Act passed in 2021 requires you to provide ownership records to the treasury but I believe that ownership of the corporation can stay anonymous to the general public.
If you're just trying to keep yourself off the Internet, just change your name to John Smith or Michael Jackson.
Although a trust is different from a corporation in many ways, they're similar in that they are both legal entities distinct from the people involved (and can both have their own tax ID numbers, also distinct from those people). They're primarily created for estate planning purposes, but public records will typically show only the name of the trust, not the people who live there.