I find myself using ctrl-r less and less as I make sure that anything of value that I work out goes into a Makefile or the app tooling, for me this is the basis of the dev-ops approach to work (make sure everything is scripted, not worked out on the fly).
cachvico · · focus · HN ↗
BeetleB · · focus · HN ↗
And as another commenter said, you often forget the target, and use Ctrl-r to find it. Although just does support fzf...