Unless you are shooting in USPSA or IDPA competition, you don't have to rack the slide very often at all.

At the range, grit your teeth and pull or bring the Vice grips and get the gun loaded to start. After that, you will either be shooting, paused with safety on (if any) or the gun empty with the slide back. Reload, close the slide and keep shooting.

Practice with the defensive weapon by exchanging the ammo in the magazine for econoball. Just shoot the hollowpoint in the chamber and carry on. You shouldn't cycle a round in and out of the chamber many times anyhow.

Field stripping for cleaning might be a challenge, but you can have tools for the purpose and no time limit.