You're describing exactly who I built this for — the "care but not enough to open 20 tabs" crowd.
My thesis is that group is bigger than the enthusiast community assumes. Most people I know (friends, family, coworkers) fall into it: they don't want to get ripped off, but they also don't want to spend a weekend on r/laptops and YouTube reviews.
The sales floor person optimizes for commission. The enthusiast optimizes for specs. This tries to optimize for "what actually fits your life" — which requires understanding context (budget, use case, priorities) more than raw benchmarks.
Whether it actually beats manual research for that middle group — perhaps not yet but I do feel there’s a path somewhere