Just to be clear, I didn’t mean using alternative tunings is a lazy approach, but rather sticking to the same chord shapes just because they are familiar to you is lazy, especially when the altered chord shapes in most cases are actually much simpler anyway. What is simpler than fingering 000200 in DADGAD tuning? I know: 000000 in open G tuning.

And just for the record I use a lot of alternative tunings myself, open G and open D for bottleneck pieces, and Gm and Dm occasionally, together with open G, open D, Gm and G modal (gDGCD) on five string banjo, and occasionally AEAE on the fiddle and ADAE on the mandolin and tenor banjo. In each case it’s sounds best, IMHO, to adjust your fingering and chord shapes to fit the altered tuning, sometimes only one finger difference. Sorry if anyone finds this haughtily disdainful, rather than helpful advice to either take or discard as you see fit.