Horizontal Blinds in the house

With the 'fashion' for shutters and blinds as house window dressing does anyone have cleaning tips?

I ask as 5 years ago we foolishly had a red metal venetian blind fitted in our kitchen. It looks great and fits in beautifully BUT it is so hard to clean 😣. I have just spent two plus hours wiping over every slat back and front, four times so in between each of the cords, all whilst kneeling on a granite work top which included the draining board as it's over the window. I know it's cleaner but not convinced it looks much better, but splashes have gone after much elbow grease! We have fairly high ceilings and being only 5'4" I am able to stand on the work surface for the top of the blind 😉.

Any vigorous rubbing can result in bent slats 😣 and although I try hard not to steam up whilst cooking it is impossible not to entirely thus dust sticks so the suggested daily whizz over with a feather duster or similar (I have a synthetic one which allegedly holds the dust) suggested by the sales assistant which I was draft enough to fall for 😂😂😂 does not work even vaguely.

As the window is overlooked by next-door's landing and constantly open toilet window it needs some form of dressing. Hubby is fanactical no idea why. We do have a 7 foot fence between our paths so the bottom of the window. It used to be full length net and a roller blind. How simple was that?