If you're willing to stay with regular scissors, you can't do better than Fiskar's MicroTips. Spring loaded to the open position, they take little effort to close and none to open back up. I use them in pairs. One soaks in alcohol while I use the other. When one gets gummed up from trichs, I switch.
As far as cleaning a Trim Pro, I'd think it would take maybe an hour out of the dozens of hours you saved by using it to begin with. Again, this is only if you're dealing in some sort of quantity.