It seems to be quite common to run into this. I asked literally the same question on discord a while ago and I was supprised to see so many peaple responding and explaining their workflows. My current approach is to accept the idea of huge mocs and making sure everything related is linked together (meaning I would link to the parent AND the grandparent). I’m also a user of the "up:: " section. Here is the link to the original discusion on Discord
Have a good one!