re OP's '...but I don't want to have 80 different ways to do things with no way to easily pick the "right" one, either.'

urge emphasis on '...but I don't want ...no way to easily pick the "right" one, either.' -- precisely for the reasons mentioned elsewhere, including, especially, the notion that absolute standardization discourages or prevents innovation, except in some other arena (for which read, some other language).