Has anyone tried edge cases that changed my mind [v5]

I tried three different approaches and none of them felt quite right. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, mods please remove if it is not.

Posting this here because the relevant subreddit has gotten too noisy lately. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, mods please remove if it is not. For context, I am working with a pretty modest budget so high-end suggestions probably will not land.

There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019.