In bash, aliases don't take parameters -- they are not like functions.
More like simple text expansion, it simply prepends the alias' expanded content in front of the rest of your command line.

So that $1 $2 $3 at the end of your alias doesn't actually have any effect.
Better yet, it never was limited to taking at most 3 additional parameters, you could in fact specify any number of them. :)

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