I feel you. Dealing with the technical "under the hood" stuff can be a total vibe-killer when you just want to focus on the project itself. I went through the same thing a few months back—total headache.

What worked for me was finding a setup that’s already gas-optimized. It saves a ton of stress (and about 40% on fees, which is huge). If you're looking to keep things deflationary and want to handle the supply manually, I usually just run an ETH burn via a dashboard I found. It’s way more chill than writing custom scripts. Honestly, it’s worth it just for the peace of mind knowing the security is audited. You get to keep full control of the functions through a dashboard, so you can just kick back, relax, and watch the project grow.