If unix were being designed from the ground up, today, user friendly commands, with aliases to power user abbreviations might make sense. It was, however, created some 30+ years ago.
yeah, if you don't like it, change it (you could even put them on a USB stick or a server somewhere so you could install them on a new machine quickly). That one could change it honestly didn't occur to me til you said it.
There's the favourite DOS->unix:
alias cd..="cd .."
alias listopenfiles=ls
alias netfind=ngrep
...and so forth. I've done that to add the DOS "cls" command to clear my terminal screen. Also, I'm a Cisco admin, so I have aliased "en" to "su", and the reverse on Cisco switches and routers. Yes, Cisco also has the alias command in IOS.