I've been thinking that I would be willing to actually pay somebody commission to buy me the best, well researched, widget from vague description. Surely it has

I've been thinking that I would be willing to actually pay somebody commission to buy me the best, well researched, widget from vague description. Surely it has to be more efficient to have product research as one's job than to have to do it once every couple years and then choose something you're not very satisfied with afterwards anyway. But there are multiple levels of perverse incentives that I just have no clue how they could be solved.