You are a man after my own heart.
I've hated lawnmowing since childhood, when I was forced to cut the grass using my dad's monstrous Briggs and Stratton. It had what I suppose you could call a "traditional" blade and weighed like a ton, or so it seemed to my ten-year-old self. I often had to have dad or big brother start it. Thankfully it was self-propelled but very hard to control, especially on the terraces. The terraces had, as I remember it, at least a 30 degree slope, maybe 40. I had to do them "sideways." I'd seen my dad mow up and down but I was incapable of that until I was maybe 17. As a 10 year old it was such a bitch to keep it from going off course on the terraces, as you can imagine.
Fast forward.
We bought our current home about 25 years ago. It had a pretty good lawn with large patches of moss in places. About 8 years ago I was preparing to take my shitty gasoline power lawnmower for its spring tune-up when I asked myself what the fuck I was doing. On Craig's list I found a 20" Neuton battery powered mower. It was super quiet so I could listen to podcasts and audio books on my earbuds as I worked, which combined with the fact that it was much lighter than any gasoline powered lawnmower made the whole thing bearable. When that crapped out I got a 27" EGO, also battery powered, lightweight, and quiet. They make practically everything battery powered including riding mowers chain saws. I don't see why anyone would use anything else. They're about the same price when purchased new.
I mow my increasingly diverse lawn about three or four times per season. I never water it much less apply noxious chemicals. In high summer it goes brown and dormant as nature intended. I also use the mower for leaf clean-up in the fall, which is much more time consuming. Thankfully, reefer is now legal in my state so I toke up, cue up some far-out space opera, and I'm all set.