There is a name for this unintended consequence: analysis paralysis, where your decision making suffers from paralysis because you are over-analyzing the large amount of information available. This is why you can spend too much time trying to make that coffeemaker decision or choosing where to go out to dinner when faced with an endless list of choices from Yelp. More seriously, people often stay in a job they don't like because they are unsure of what to do next given all the possibilities.
Chapter:
Anything That Can Go Wrong, Will
Section:
Too Much Of A Good Thing