>Why wouldn't an automated interface be able to give similar recommendations ?

you being sarcastic? If only we had an automated interface to make decisions about what code to write, then we wouldn't need programmers. Look how well that turned out IRL. We don't really need many assembly language programmers any more, but now we have all these nifty new programming languages...

I am under the impression that all the combinations of all configurations would still be small enough to present neatly maybe in a wizard.