That is... not the way I generally work around it or see it. Normally you just use Write-Host when you need it and otherwise just collect return values inside

That is... not the way I generally work around it or see it. Normally you just use Write-Host when you need it and otherwise just collect return values inside the function by assigning them to variables. It's basically solved if you never call a command without storing the return value somewhere. Which is not optimal in a scripting language where you just want to get things done, but it's not the end of the world.