It seems like the only logical option. If someone paid me to come up with a solution to having poopy butt I couldn't come up with a better one than a hose or a bidet. You know what I wouldn't do? I WOULDN'T INVENT PAPER YOU COULD RUB ON YOUR BUTT.
Like every person that has tried a bidet on the internet describes their experience as being reborn. Anyone that tries it instantly becomes a shill for big bidet. I have not seen a single negative review for a bidet aside from maybe water shooting up your back which is more of a skill issue with aiming.
There is some debate to be had between using a bidet versus using a hose. With bidet there's no hand contact but you can't control where the water goes. Im personally more in favor of hose since you still gotta flush and handle the bathroom door so there's gonna be contact either way, but using water is CLEARLY superior to toilet paper.
Water is cheaper and guess what? IT USES LESS CLEAN WATER THAN MAKING TOILET PAPER. That's right making a single tissue of TP uses more water than just simply washing your butt. You can also shower less frequently because you don't constantly smell like shit. We are deforesting jungles just to turn them into butt napkins that do not even clean us properly, they just smear the shit all over the crack and make us smell like poop.
Also without TP there's no longer an issue with assholes flushing their used TP down the toilet and clogging the pipes, houses will no longer get TP'ed, the pandemic scalping situation wouldn't have happened etc etc. So why are people still hellbent on using this inferior method?
Idk where you live, but in Poland even though sadly some people do lack general hygiene and stink, almost nobody smell like shit in public places. And there's basically no bidets in Poland anywhere, everyone uses toilet paper.
I think it's also the effect of using the subway a lot because maybe someone has a very faint smell of shit and you don't notice but when there are lots of people together in a confined tight space with poor conditioning it becomes very noticeable like the magic the gathering tournaments.
I can't say about metro, since not even that long ago the map of entirety of metro in Poland could be put on a pen (and now on cross), but while indeed public transport and MtG tourneys are often the sources of olfactory assaults, it is still very rarily shit. And when it is it is usually coming ~~from the mouth of MtG players~~ from visible alcoholics being too drunk to control their bodies.