[parliament32]

>I always find myself suffering from choice anxiety when I open those up

This whole analysis-paralysis trend seems to be a thing not just in food delivery, but Netflix et al as well. I've lost count of the number of times I've kept scrolling through Netflix with a bunch of "okay" options at the back of my head, but searching for something better. Ditto for DoorDash.

I wonder how well an "I'm feeling lucky" button would do on a food delivery platform.

[briefcomment]

When you don't see something that's a definite "yes" after a couple minutes on Netflix, why not just stop looking? And if this happens often, why not just drop Netflix altogether? Curious about what proportion of the time Netflix is just a time pass at best. I can count the number of shows which I would recommend to a younger me who is deciding whether to watch those shows on one hand.

[DrScump]

If you use Netflix that way, it effectively becomes a push technology.

I hate push technology, clear back to Pointcast.

The other thing that I hate about Netflix is that even when you search for a specific title, and they don't have it, they won't simply tell you that they don't have it. What they will do is bury you in listings of all their shows that have the most vague correlation to the title you actually searched for, even using just parts of random keywords.

Example: I just searched for "Dresden files". It proudly displayed "The Dresden Files" title, followed by mostly unrelated crap. Roswell? Wynonna Earp? The Greatest Events of World War II? Are you kidding me?

[xmprt]

For the decision paralysis thing it helps to start a timer and force yourself to come to a decision by then. Or else come up with 2 or 3 decent options and then flip a coin/roll a die for the final decision.