As much as you randomly blow up your system Mike, you should embrace a separate nas (network attached storage) solution. If you want something simple, get a qnap or synology nas device, at least a 2 disk system, and use something like unison/rsync to replicate important data over cifs/nfs. You can buy cheaper nas systems on ebay, usually random chinese hardware suited to running freenas or like, but however you do it, have a copy of your data when experimenting and deleting anything.
If I wiped out my home directory without a backup, I'd
lose 20+ years of 100+ different companies I've worked at since late
90's (ie. my livelihood), not to mention almost 30 years of personal data, and just not an option. I replicate my data hourly between 2 laptops, 1 desktop, and 2 synology nas systems that real-time replicate data directly. If I did screw up that bad, I'd just kill replication and move a copy of the data back from my nas.
Last time I did something like that almost 20yr ago, I was moving files around, I accidentally started moving all files from /sbin into another directory, fubar'd the system (at the time, a monitoring server that I ran Cox Business Services off of), but learned real quick the importance of thinking before doing. Slow. It. Down. Think about what you're doing before hitting that enter button. It's much the same when I'm doing network deployments to enterprise devices, or just mucking around with my workstation. Don't be that guy if you're ever in a position to admin business systems.