[slowmovintarget]

You're not very familiar with modern fountain pens, are you?

Most don't leak, and if you are really finicky about mess (like I used to be before children) you can fill them with a syringe... not a stray drop anywhere.

The utility (and cost-effectiveness in many cases) of bottled inks, and avoiding the landfill waste of using cartridges is worth the extra effort in cleaning and maintaining a fine instrument.

[thom]

That sounds pretty much exactly as high maintenance as I was picturing.

[fishmaster]

Which is not really that much. Clean it once in a while and the refill is extremely easy, even with a syringe.