After... Here's my take for whatever it's worth.... If you were to buy the same balls you are using they would run you appx $35.00 to $42.00 per dozen in real life. Then take into consideration if you shanked your ball or the wind caught it and it went into places in real life golf similar to where they go on here odds are you wouldn't be able to find it either.
Most all of my shots that I have lost balls are because I screwed up by not figuring the wind and aiming incorrectly, miss judged my distance or just out and out sloppy fingered my meter. There have been a few and I mean very few that I could actually blame my meter on, even with those it was my screw up by not backing my finger off and letting the meter go by. So I really can't blame the meter either.
So if one can't stand losing $2.00-$3.00 balls one has to either play better or use cheaper balls. Nobody likes losing them but guess what, it's set up that way and in reality makes us more cautious and better players in the long run because we have to be more watchful of how we play or pay the consequences other than just losing a stroke or two.