For pete's sake; in a normal programming environment one would think nothing of creating as many variables as were needed in a program to accomplish waht YOU wanted. Consider custom columns as another form of variable, as building blocks towards what YOU want to get done.
Your resistance to using them is asinine.
If it's just you don't like seeing them in custom metadata editing, maybe a polite request to Kovid to add a new attribute to a custom column; hide from display might suffice.
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