Consider me one of the safety blade zealots. I looked for alternatives because I don’t like spending gobs of money on Triple-Trac razors, and the cheap disposable ones just dulled too fast. Electric ones have never worked for me. I bought a 1955 Gillette Fatboy off eBay for $10 and haven’t looked back. I get a pretty close shave with the double edged razor blades, and a pack of 10 blades costs a dollar.
Something else I think that helps is I bought a shaving soap puck and a brush. I see why they say to get a high quality brush, I bought the cheap boar bristle brush and that thing’s rough and sheds like crazy. It makes foam like crazy though, which I like.
I’d eventually like to get a straight edge, but I’m impatient with manscaping and I would end up doing it for special occasions or when I feel like it.