I think you overestimate the maintenance required for a straight or open razor.
Once honed, Stropping before use is all you need for most upkeep. If you have a strop that has both a cloth and a leather component, that is 10 passes with the linen or fabric and about 50 on the leather. I thought that sounded like a lot of passes, but, after a little practice, it happens quickly enough that I kind of notice when I get to around 40 that I am almost done. Because you are doing 50 passes per occasion, practice happens faster and soon you are getting done in under 2-3 mins.
Stropping (done properly) will hold an edge almost indefinitely. If you have a pasted strop, to use every few shaves. you may never have to have to re-hone that razor.
There was a guy who tried to shave with a razor he used a chrome ox pasted strop on 1-2 times a week and had that going for daily shaves for until he (and everyone reading) got bored. More than a year IRRC.
You don't really need to do anything that fancy for it. Folded newsprint (black) makes good stropping materiel.
Of course this presumes you don't do anything stupid to the razor, like using it to open your mail.
Once you finally need to touch up that razor, 10 passes on a barber's hone, Coticule or other finishing hone and you are back in business.
This big issue is that as long as the touch up is done similarly to the original hone job, doesn't involve re-setting the bevel which is where all the real work and tricks come into play.
You just ask the guy who honed it if he taped the spine, with what and how many layers. Most master honers don't tape. I do because I am no master.
So, on the touch ups above, I was the original honer on 2 of them and used tape for the touch up. The other 2 were purchased shave ready. I presumed they were honed without tape and did the touch up the same way.
I did all 4 in about 20 minutes and they all shaved well.
I did part of my shave with each. Enough to make sure they all cut well with no pulling and felt comfortable.
They were dipped in 70% isopropyl and are drying. I'll oil them tomorrow. I may strop them some more at that time.
I will look for a barber hone to slip into the box. There were a few I never got flattened and have to make sure I am not putting one of those in.