Andreaerdna
If God is the answer, then the question is wrong
In my experience with the OG and OV cleaning the Omni is far easier. I just take a cotton swab with a bit of alcohol and send it through the condenser and swabbed it around the bowl. Give it a good rinse and I'm ready to go once it dries. After about a week of neglecting to clean it my ceramic screen was pretty gunked and I broke it when trying to remove it. To be fair I was trying to push it out with a flat head screwdriver so it just tore right through. For anyone trying to remove the ceramic screen for cleaning be sure to use something like a wooden dowel to make sure the pressure is being spread instead of focused on one area.
EDIT: to clarify before breaking my ceramic screen I was cleaning every 3 or 4 days. The week of now cleaning consisted of lots of playing with the OV and showing off so it got pretty gunked
Also heating VC in order to make solid gunk to become oily before pushing in order to help to reduce the force necessary to push it out.
I was cleaning it red hot once extracted but I realised that the tweezer I used to keep it in place while torching it created a colder side (not red hot) and possibly weaken my filter (showing black cracklines before cracking)
So now I too use a ss mesh trimmed and kept in place with the metallic clip (as @phattpiggie )