Most often you don't have to go through so many. The community usually has some preferred selection of tools and you have to choose from 2-5 different options.

Most often you don't have to go through so many. The community usually has some preferred selection of tools and you have to choose from 2-5 different options. You still need to do some research but it is not as bad as you present it. The advantage of this is that better tools may replace worse tools and totally different approaches can be tested whereas you have to hope in a framework that the initially chosen strategy can be improved enough.