Da, I must put in a good word for contactr lenses. I am extremely nearsighted and my glasses were unsightly and difficult.
At the age of sixteen, I got contact lenses, in the days before soft contact lenses. It was a miracle, put those little discs in your eyes, and you can see perfectly! I have been wearing hard lenses nonstop (actually, I take them out at night) and without problems, for almost forty years now, and still regard them as a miracle.
Glasses and contact lenses are quite amazing. I think if the only historical mitigations for nearsightedness had been laser surgery and lens transplants, then someone invented glasses, which have almost no side-effects, the inventor would be awarded the Nobel Prize.