Depends on the importance of the system. If it's a fairly unimportant home system that's excessively backed up, it's fairly easy to live life on the edge.
An alias would work but it wouldn't say rebnooting. That was my initial fix. But I was learning things at the time and I learned how to recompile parts of the distribution. I also learned how programs in Unix could invoke different effects based on name. Coming from DOS, it was a real surprise that reboot was a link to shutdown.