Soaker hoses are easy because you just lay them on the ground and don't have to dig. You can move them to configure them differently and they're inexpensive. Drip can also be good in a vegetalbe garden. Rain Bird has an app on their website for you to enter measurements and they will give you a parts list and diagram. I still water with a hose, but my garden is small.

I use soaker hoses because my garden is a collection of raised beds that don't work well for a drip irrigation. I also rotate crops which means the configuration in each bed changes annually or even twice a season if I am succession planting in the same bed.

The drawback to soaker hoses is that they don't usually last more than 3 seasons.

My brother uses drip irrigation in his huge garden and orders his supplies from Dripworks.

Dripworks

Rain drip.

As opposed to watering by hand, one could just use sprinklers. Those will wet the foliage, which isn't necessarily optimal, but you're already doing that by watering by hand. This sounds like it's about more than saving time. What are you really trying to achieve?

Thank you for your suggestions, I really want to avoid overhead watering, I’m not wetting foliage when watering by hand, I’m very cautious in this regard. As having suffered losses with powdery mildew in the past.
Main objective I’m trying to a achieve is both water and time savings, and being able to have an automated system will give me the freedom to be away and know my plants are getting the water they need without relying on someone to come over to care for them. The lack of knowledge in this regard and expenses for installing a system has me searching for what’s the best way to achieve my goals. I appreciate suggestions offered, and have spent a lot of time trying to get familiar with these options provided. Thanks so much

That's pretty tricky not wetting foliage when watering by hand. No wonder it takes a lot of time. But yes, soaker or drip hoses seem like the most straightforward option, though you'll be doing a lot of connecting and disconnecting.

Contrary to popular belief, overhead watering does not encourage the development of powdery mildew. PM is actually water adverse - cannot develop on wet surfaces - and spraying down susceptible plants periodically is one form of recommended preventative treatment.

Late day applications of overhead watering should be avoided as insufficient time for the foliage to dry before nightfall can encourage other fungal issues but in general, overhead watering does NOT increase disease issues. Overhead watering is the norm for almost all commercial agriculture.

What is your budget? If you can afford it an underground system is the cleanest and neatest way to do irrigation. It also puts all of the largest pipes quite deep which limits damage from normal gardening.

I also watered by hand for...wow, 40 years! I couldn't imagine doing it now, and I'm very grateful for our underground system. We have a lot of drip as part of the system and it keeps me quite busy for 8 months of the year maintaining the drip infrastructure. Every time I add a plant I have to get water to that plant, which means adding an emitter or adjusting the spray pattern of a spray-head. It's not easy but way better than dragging hoses, and looking at hoses always laying around. We don't have any drip or soaker hoses, just a combination of spray heads and emitters, and it works well in both ornamental gardens and raised beds with veggies. Its all Rainbird and Rainbird-compatible hardware.