If you have wrist issues, just accept that you won't be able to do a slap save with the same oomf as someone without wrist issues. Make up for it by being a more tactical shooter that plays in control and doesn't let the ball get out of their control.

They would cut down the potential damage to your wrists, but unfortunately are awful to play in. I tried that myself once, but I could never get a good feeling for the game because of the angle of your wrist ends up being straight.

I’ve ended up on the other side of this. For years, the games in my house were setup ridiculously hard. If you weren’t on full alert, you were going to have a bad game. And even if you were, odds are you would have a bad game. Every pinball game played was at tournament level hard. Players would complain about House balls and unfair games. League nights went pretty quick, because the games were vicious.

And then a good friend said people in league didn’t like playing my games because of it. So I relented and set up a couple games much more normal. Not full “homeowner” style, but more normal location style instead of tournament. And what I found was that I found them more fun and relaxing.

95% of my pinball playing is not in a tournament or league. I’ll now happily sacrifice a bit of skill to have more fun most of the time.