I tried a hand primer pocket cleaning tool but got tired of it after 200 rounds. Then I got a Lyman Case Prep Center because I thought I was going to clean primer pockets and also use it to trim, chamfer and deburr. I read a lot of advice here that none of that was necessary for straight-walled handgun brass. As my volume went up, I decided to return the case prep center instead of using it. I no longer trim, chamfer or deburr. I'm considering starting to reload .223 and I may get a case prep center again, but for handgun brass, I don't miss it.
I do still get my primer pockets clean because I wet tumble with stainless steel media. I think wet tumbling is far better than dry tumbling alone, not only because it gets inside the cases and primer pockets cleaner, but because it also controls lead dust when tumbling brass that was shot with lead styphnate primers, lead bullets, or ball ammo with exposed lead bases. I don't have space in my shop for lead dust contamination and I don't want to wear a respirator when handling my tumbling media.
When I decapped on a turret, I just pulled the auto-indexer so it worked like a single stage. It does burn the clock a bit just putting cases into the shellholder and taking them back out. Now I decap on a progressive press. I started by just letting the decapped cases go around the stations with the dies removed other than a universal decapper in station 1. Removing the dies was easy with a quick-change die holder. However, there are two things I don't like about this. First, I don't care to run dirty, dusty brass through the progressive press and have grit in the mechanism and a cleanup job afterward. I used compressed air and brushes to clean it. The second thing is, now that I have a bullet feeder set up, pulling all the dies isn't as simple as it used to be. I'm thinking about getting a hand decapping tool. But the progressive press is pretty efficient at decapping since it feeds the cases into the shell plate and auto-ejects them. I don't put dirty cases in the case feeder's magazines so I don't have to clean them, but all I have to do is drop the cases in the hole one at a time and the feeder and press do the rest. So instead of hand decapping, I might just start pre-washing the cases by swishing them in water to wash off the dust and grit and letting them air dry before I decap them and wet tumble them. I still dry tumble. I dry tumble to ensure there is no water residue on air-dried brass, to polish the brass, and I find it restores some of the lubricity that is lost with wet tumbling. I also use dry tumbling to clean and polish copper or brass bullets. I don't routinely do this, but have had some that needed tarnish cleaned off.