Higher quality lenses are a thing, but with a straightforward low hyperopia prescription without any astigmatism used only for short-medium vision I don't think you'd get a great deal of value for the much higher cost. Also, cost need not have anything at all to do with the quality of the lenses. Glasses are generally sold as fashion items, even when they're essential for daily life, so you can easily pay vastly different prices for glasses with the same lenses based solely on how fashionable the frames are this week. You could easily pay £30 for glasses with exactly the same lenses as £1 glasses. Or even more. One time I got new glasses, I paid £10 for the frames because they were the previous season's fashion and the optician couldn't sell them any more. Other frames ranged from £40 to £110. Same lenses, but a £100 variation in price solely due to how fashionable the frames were. Those £10 frames were excellent quality. I used them all the time for well over a decade without any trouble.
As for wiping them frequently, in ~45 years I have never found lenses that don't need wiping frequently. I have decent quality lenses, the best I could get from a chain store opticians with no regard for cost (they cost me ~£300) and while they are flawless and precisely correct they still need wiping frequently.
There might be another factor that might be of more use to you - distance. I have two pairs of glasses because I have myopia and presbyopia (and severe astigmatism, but that's not relevant to this point). What is relevant to this point is that neither pair is ideal for PC use. My reading pair is ideal for very short range, i.e. the distance at which you'd hold a book. My general pair is ideal for short-medium to long range, i.e. what you'd use in most aspects of daily life. The distance to the monitor for my PC is in between the two. I can use either pair of glasses for it and both are adequate...but neither are ideal. If you're using glasses only at a specific distance, your best bet might be to discuss that with an optician and have lenses made specifically for that distance. You'll have to pay the cost of custom-made glasses rather than off the shelf reading glasses, but you should get a better experience from it and a simple prescription shouldn't be particularly expensive even at proper optician prices (and the lenses should be better quality than £1 reading glasses). Unless, of course, you want a £150 fashion frame to put the lenses in.
