You can remove things you don't need. For example: ;; who cares about tags to be displayed in magit-refs buffer? (remove-hook 'magit-refs-sections-hook 'magit

You can remove things you don't need. For example: ;; who cares about tags to be displayed in magit-refs buffer? (remove-hook 'magit-refs-sections-hook 'magit-insert-tags) Also there are faster shortcuts, like you said, e.g: `magit-file-dispatch (C-c M-g)`