I find the best photo before editing is often different than the best photo after editing. Granted that’s probably a skill issue on my part.

you can bulk edit with your adjustments taken from one image and apply to a set of images taken in same lighting, etc

That somewhat depends on three main things: your photography style, your equipment quality, and your skill. If you shoot landscape photos, you almost certainly don't want to be taking 100s of shots per day and should spend more time and effort on composition. If you shoot wildlife action (e.g. birds in flight, especially fast ones like swallows) you'll be taking hundreds to thousands of shots per minute of action (30 shots/second from a high-end body like a Sony a1 or Cannon R5 means 1800 shots per minute, even mid-range bodies take 10 shots/second). If you've got good enough equipment and skill that most of those shots are usable, then there's going to be a lot of sorting to find the ones worth editing.