It's very easy¹ on MacOS to make yourself a custom layout with the characters you commonly use. Personally, I put arrows on ⌥⇧HJKL, vi-style.² (Doing so for Linux is a little more work, as xkb is more complicated and less capable.)

¹ https://software.sil.org/ukelele/

² https://codeberg.org/datatravelandexperiments/kps-keyboard-l...