And there's the typical non-answer I usually get, a helpful answer would read something like;

To auto mount drives on Bazzite open terminal and type

sudo rpm-ostree install gnome-disk-utility

Wait for-ev-er..................

Reboot

open "disks"

select your disk you want to auto mount

you'll see an icon that looks like a window with a play symbol in it that is "Additionaal Partition Options"

click on it and select "Edit Mount Options"

you may or may not have to toggle user session defaults

check the box that says mount on startup

enter your password if asked and reboot to verify.

And those are admittedly terrible instructions but at least they actually answer the question instead of "just use fstab" like a new linux user would have any idea what that is or what to do with it.

I forgot about this, but AFAIK you're still better off with fstab to give yourself all permissions for everything to work properly.