In the aga vs anachronism thing, I'm 150% with anachronism. If I worked like aga, I would worry myself sick, only get half as much gold out, and would go insane. Too paranoid for me plus, in the long run, it's probably more dangerous. It's been proven to me many times that, the more unnecessary safety equipment one wears or uses, the greater the possibility of an accident. The correct amount is the bare safe minimum. The purpose of gloves is to get chemicals on them that, if you weren't wearing gloves, would be on your hands. I rarely use anything but gloved hands or ungloved hands to pick up any container, hot or not, up to the size of a full bucket. Sometimes, believe it or not, it would safer to not wear gloves, like when they're wet and slick. Never pick up a straight-side, heavy-duty 4 liter beaker with wet gloves. Don't ask how I know that. The only tool I can think of that I use to pick up anything is a strip cut from a cardboard box, about 1" wide x 6-8" long. I wrap it around the neck of a superhot 250ml erlenmeyer flask and pinch it tight, in order to pick it up and swirl it, when I'm wet ashing and the solution is literally about 400F, maybe more. They make special tongs for that, but the cardboard works just as well if you keep the hot sulfuric off of it, which is easy to do.
Gloves are tools. Their main usage is to act as a barrier between your skin and chemicals. For most solutions, except concentrated nitric or sulfuric, I always kept a pair of shoulder length black butyl gloves, just in case I had to retrieve something from the bottom of a full bucket or a tank that wasn't over about 15" deep. I do wash gloves off when I get strong chemicals on them, especially nitric, sulfuric, or lye. Strong sulfuric will quickly eat about any rubber gloves except $60 teflon ones.
About the only thing I'm really careful about, when it comes to gloves, is to never handle anything that will puncture them, like ICs or DIPs, with sharp legs. The reason is obvious. I use leather work gloves for them.
Invariably, chemicals will get inside the gloves. When that happens, I rinse them out and then stick them on the top of broom handles and let them dry. I hate thin latex or nitrile gloves and have only worn them a few times when nothing else was available. Actually, nitrile is not that great for the chemicals we use - look it up. I like the cloth lined, two-tone green (usually) rubber ones, like the ones sold in farm stores for handling anhydrous ammonia. To take them off or put them on, you don't even have to touch the outside. You just shake them off onto the edge of a bucket or drum. They'll stand up by themselves, so, to put them back on, you just stick your hands into them. That works best after you've worn them a few times and they're limbered up a bit. I always roll up about a 1" cuff on these. That way, if you get any acids on the gloves and you hold your hands up, the cuff will catch the acid and prevent it from rolling down your forearm.