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Visiting museum ships also showed me you can sometimes route cables over living and working spaces.

This is what I did. Takes minimal effort and then you never have to worry about it again.

Cables routed on visible walls look absolutely terrible. I wish they didn’t, but they do.

Yes, it’s better if your cable and clips and wall all match, but it still looks bad.

when done right, raceway along (or even behind the) baseboards works nicely

Why? Run them along baseboards in the corners, you'll never notice them (or at least we didn't at our last house, white on white).

What if you ran the cable on the top of the wall and covered it with crown molding?