From everything I’ve read, having a deeply rooted lawn with good biodiversity is the best way to avoid weeds. Different types of grasses, flowers, clover etc. Adding compost to the lawn to give it more nutrients and encourage the roots, all that.
I’ve started implementing this myself and the results have been great. In areas where it hasn’t quite taken dandelions are an issue, but in areas where it has they are not at all.
Personally, I think the use of herbicides and the desire for a boring monoculture turf lawn are both really silly and pointless. You’ve basically bought into the marketing at that point. and to be fair, that marketing machine has been going for 50 or 60 years. But forget the chemicals, do a little manual work in the meantime, and focus on improving the strength of your lawn instead of just fighting an endless battle with a symptom of a ####ty lawn.
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