Anti-patternv1
Tool-fetishism anti-pattern: spending more time evaluating,
Tool-fetishism anti-pattern: spending more time evaluating, configuring, and switching tools than using any single tool productively, where the search for the perfect tool becomes a substitute for doing the work the tool is meant to support
Why This Is an Anti-Pattern
Inverts tool-amplification (Tool-amplification pattern: the multiplicative relationship). Violates Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (attention finite). Recurs in productivity tool addiction, app-hopping, setup-over-execution.