(Re)Searching for a new tool in the way described sounds more like a form or variant of procrastination. Especially spending 50 hours researching the best tool

(Re)Searching for a new tool in the way described sounds more like a form or variant of procrastination. Especially spending 50 hours researching the best tool then not using it more than five hours. The whole exercise was a distraction. The distraction itself was the payoff rather than the full cycle of acquire, learn, master, perform.