Whenever you normally use some programs with other options than their defaults, it is simpler to define aliases for those programs.

There are many common programs that I never use with their standard default options (which are very bad, IMO), e.g. cp, mv, ln, rm, rsync, date and many others, so I always define aliases for them, which include those options that I want to use by default.

So for grep, the recursive search should be included in the grep alias. There is no need for a new program in order to have this feature.