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The beautiful thing about GIS is that maps are dynamic. Layers can individually be shown and hidden and information can be presented more or less prominently based on the task at hand.
This is what Map Themes (before QGIS 3.0 known as Visibility Presets) are for.
Creating a Map Theme in QGIS is a very simple task.