I'd been using Phillips electric shavers for years because everyone who used electric razors was all PHILLIPS BEST CLOSEST SHAVE EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS.

Yeah, about that...

I got a hold of a Remington shaver because I wanted some sort of mains powered electric razor without a fucking battery (because that shit always breaks in a few years) and that was all they had.

Remington are similar in terms of being a rotary head design and always described as "Not as good as Phillips".

I'd have to push back on that.

They are a less close shave than Phillips. It's just that this is due to different design choices rather than poorer design.

See, having used Phillips electric razors for years, I can tell you they're horrible to maintain.

If you've got oily skin they'll clog up within days and become useless, at which point you have to completely disassemble them and painstakingly clean them.

The Remington heads, conversely have blades which are spaced further apart and do have a slightly less close shave as a result of that.

They are also very easy to inspect and much less prone to clogging.

The Remington heads also have something the Phillips ones don't: a path for the hair, oil and skin it grinds off your face to go, rather than just getting stuck in the blades and very quickly rendering them useless.

So as you shave, the aforementioned hair/oil/skin accumulates in the lower section of the heads for you to shake out later, instead of just getting caught in the blades and gunking the mechanism up.

All in all, I find the Remington head design to be a very pleasant surprise. Some slight compromises in closeness of shave make for heads which are far easier to live with in terms of reliability and user serviceability.

I guess I have to remember that most guys have a baseline for shaving performance that is absolutely insane: I don't care if it cuts my face up, so long as I get the closest shave possible.

Meanwhile I'm just trying to signal that I have adequate attention to personal hygiene that I bothered to shave that morning. I will end up with a five o clock shadow by lunchtime regardless, my facial hair grows so quickly.

Also, the only way I'm switching to a wet razor is if we experience a level of societal collapse that reliable mains power stops being a thing.

I shave my whole head, I really cannot be fucked going to the effort of lathering my entire head every fucking morning.