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I have had nothing but great experiences with cruise ships. It is the one vacation experience where you don't have to lift a finger. You leave your deck chair for a swim and come back to a fresh towel. You eat a banana in your cabin and it suddenly reappears in the fruit bowl upon your return. Food and drink anytime you want it. All of that for a pretty reasonable price.

There may be 3,000 other people on board but you hardly notice them. Probably because a typical cruise ship will have some 15 decks, each of them massive. You will never actually see the majority of the other passengers (or crew members) you sail with on a given cruise.

As for safety, when was the last time since the Titanic or wartime that a pleasure cruise ship went to the bottom with massive loss of life?

Statistically, it's probably pretty safe given the overall number of passengers and uneventful voyages. Like air travel, which I have to do all the time for work.

Titanic is definitely #1 on the list, but the other 9 listed here ain't that encouraging, and again, nothing for which I'll risk my personal participation, particularly after watching their SARS-Cov2 muddled response. Hell, they probably won't even let me aboard, as an unvaxxed citizen. Definitely couldn't go ashore in some of the ports they visit.