Hey @villares! Thank you again for your input. After some thought I think I will propose using the (still in development) online editor to resolve this. My hope is to have an optional mode where these get placed into global through preprocessing. I think that may help achieve the balance we are looking for. What do you think of that? Thanks again for all of your help! This could have a CLI equivalent as well though the editor will be a PWA so one could install it for offline use either way.
EDIT: that also has the nifty benefit that one can convert from this global to OOP mode to see how the code would change in adopting object orientation.