refactor: deduplicate the expression, at the cost of more confusion?

[jessesimpson36]

This is a draft to see whether certain changes make sense.

The problem here is that we try to deduplicate an expression that acts as boolean logic as well as a string representation of it's real value. When having a function for these 2 purposes, we end up with logic that is still confusing to read (in my opinion).

Lets use the comments section to continue discussing.