I knew that shell files, especially in build systems can get hard to read, but this was absolutely painful to look at from start to finish, even with the very helpful explanations in between.
Of course the obfuscation is mostly done by design in this case.
Like someone noted in the vimtex issue you linked, I use UltiSnips together with snippet definitions from vim-snippets, which works pretty well with the begin snippet. vim-snippets includes a bunch more snippets too which I find quite useful, particularly for LaTeX. I don't know the vsnip plugins you mentioned but they can probably do the same.
That commonwealth is called the EU today and, along with NATO, is the reason why these countries are in a comparitively safer position. It would be much riskier for Russia to invade there.
I knew that shell files, especially in build systems can get hard to read, but this was absolutely painful to look at from start to finish, even with the very helpful explanations in between. Of course the obfuscation is mostly done by design in this case.