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Edwin Ashworth
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Though often used with a looser meaning (just having plenty of choice, usually considered a good thing), the expression spoiled for choice can be used:

be spoilt/spoiled for choice:

to have so many good things to choose from that you cannot decide which one to choose

Often, we seem to be spoiled for choice and hampered, even paralysed, by our fear of the unknown.

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FumbleFingers on ELL, adds the following quote from the New York Times pointing out the possibility that too much choice can lead to an inability to focus:

There is a famous jam study [which concluded that] in reality, people might find more and more choice to actually be debilitating.

Edwin Ashworth
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