I have between 11-1200 ppm of salt in my pool. I can't taste salt. But the water feels fantastic. Really crisp and clean, like swimming in bottle of Aquafina I know what you mean by the slimey feel of soft water. I hate taking soft water showers, I never feel like I can get rinsed. However my pool water is entirely different, just refreshing and very clean feeling.

I don't have a SWG.

I like to look at my pool at least once per day at a minimum. I buy a case of bleach at a time, and every night at dark I clean my skimmer basket, check my filter pressure and give everything a once over, and add one .75 gal bottle of 6% bleach. Whole process takes maybe 3 minutes.