So it turns out that you can start terminals in GVIM and manage them like buffers. I needed to tweak it a bit, but it's really nice to have this without having to learn an entirely new tool like tmux.
@madewokherd adore Zellij as well as it feels like Tmux but for people who want to be reminded of the keyboard hotkeys all the time like myself, tmux fills too much of my brain space but this doesn't