When I cut off the tip of my left pointer a few years ago, I was forced to learn some barre chords to play C and as an alternate way of playing G, etc.   Necessity was the mother of long overdue invention for me, as I had convinced myself (for decades) that I was physically incapable of playing barre chords.   Now I often play C that way just 'cause it sounds nice higher up the neck.

I also switched the fingers I was using for A, E, and some other chords. So now I vary that, depending on what chord I'm going to next.

I still find the old fingering for C troublesome a lot of the time because of arthritis in that same finger and in my left pinkie, but I can switch positions off and on, so my fingers don't get as tired.