You can also record and save plan you are happy with. So, no need to fix hints in code. It is more flexible and may be practical when you upgrade version or environment changes.
Can you do that in MySQL?
For Oracle you AFIAK need special permission to save a plan. In larger corporations this means you have call the db admin which makes total sense for OLTP (and is a good feature of SQL dbs). If you’re exploring something in OLAP this is not so great.