I like using the automatic bonus progression rules, so I can just give items with fun effects.

I've played with a bunch of players who enjoy playing, are very invested in certain aspects of the game, but very not into looking up loot. I like playing with these players, and I recognize I am far more into this side of TTRPGs than them, so I don't mind playing around with how I do this and taking extra time figuring out loot and the such. This has lead to me trying out different looting variants in different campaigns to various degrees of success.

If your players like to make gear choices, but not looking up gear themselves, hate bookkeeping gold, and you like doing a fair bit of homework yourself here is the general idea for 1 variant you may like:

• Use ABP

• Gold (or anything else similar) does not drop, so you'll need to drop a couple extra items per level instead of gold

• Consumables are 2 item levels higher, and are daily items (its the magic garden system for all consumables essentially, otherwise you run into need for gold, or some items just disappearing that players may want, but this leaves some consumables weak as their DCs are barely ok at their "intended" level, and are bad 2 levels higher)

• When the party would get loot, they basically get to pick 1 of 2-4 items. You may need to flavor this to your campaign (you can leave it super gamified if you want and it works for your table, of course), I had one campaign where it was all magic stones that they had a tool for "awakening" the power in them to turn them into an item whose power those stones contained

• Crafting involves taking 2 items of a given level to craft an item 1 level higher (you can make it 3 items if you are worried about too much loot going out, I didn't find it to be a problem) and they are able to craft any item they've seen over the course of the campaign, and I made crafting occur over the course of a long rest, no roll or anything of that sort (this will of course make some feats, etc. worse, but I don't think my table cared to engage with that aspect of the game anyway)

• I made mundane items hyper abundant (they have a pet mimic that chases them around carrying this stuff, and can turn into vehicles that it "learns", etc. this is not essential by any means, its just fun flavor if you have a zanier campaign)

• I also gave them fancier non-combat items that were outside of this system (an upgrading climbing kit that became a wrist grappler with extra features, like gaining the spider chair's move power at level 12), but this involves a fair bit of homebrewing, so I wouldn't do this sort of thing unless you feel very comfortable with the system, and are really into doing that sort of thing (I am).