You can even get an item in Elden Ring called the Twiggy Cracked Tear about a third of the way through that lets your Physick flask grant the same effects as a Sacrificial Twig for 3 minutes. Once you get that, the stress of losing Runes can be greatly diminished.
Simply drink it prior to crossing a fog wall or at a difficult point on the path to Rune retrieval.
If that's not enough, and you're on PC, you can download a simple mod off Nexus which eliminates Rune loss on death entirely.
This must be an American thing then because Subaru are almost non existent in the UK, yet long lines of queuing traffic are common