In terms of performance, you actually don't want to avoid swapping, you want your OS to be smart about swapping. Some type of swap space is probably always beneficial unless you have more RAM than storage lol. Swap is great for putting aside data that isn't needed but can't be freed, and prioritizing filesystem cache over some background service that isn't doing anything. Even big servers often use some form of swap because swap can reduce disk reading. In some cases swap can even reduce disk writing, as counter intuitive as that sounds.

Yea both zRAM and Zswap use good compression, typically around 3:1 ratio, and it's still light on CPU usage, much faster than SSD swap.