Please oh please, can someone hack a way to get shell history expansion!? The most objectionable thing about shell history to me is that it's not what I typed!

Please oh please, can someone hack a way to get shell history expansion!? The most objectionable thing about shell history to me is that it's not what I typed! Mainly a zsh user & I've looked up & down & all around, but I cannot find a way to keep track of what I actually typed, versus what got ran! I really want to better be able to identify patterns, look at what I was typing. Show me !-1$, the last word of the last command! I need this to learn & improve my expansion capabilities better. I need this to see how my history evolved, to backtrack & see where else any given line was pointing at. Shell history feels devoid of the most important context I craft; I summon birds from hats and my shell history just says: there was a bird here. Hiss boo.