Yeah, this should be the way everyone setups Home Assistant. Itās too bad that when new users start using Home Assistant, they are stuck with the ugly interface with all the rows and rows of circles for all their sensors, etc.
Everyone should be overriding the default_view and only add the devices they want to be seen in the frontend instead of having EVERYTHING show up and spend all their time hiding all the items they donāt want to see.
I have no hidden items in my customize because everything is automatically hidden when you override the default_view, then you can customize it the way you want with your own views and groups and only see the things you want to see.