https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/
Which CPU family and which series? Once you finish THAT, everything gets a lot more straightforward.
That list is terrible. At least order the families/series chronologically.
If I'm a reasonably informed random, I know to click a handful of things with "lake" in the name and a handful of things with "zen" in the name and that's about it. Except you can't do that with the chooser as it gives you zero choices, since -zen is a series and -lake is a family and those are disjoint (I should be able to union those).
As a noob, I would miss any of the "gaming value" choices with that heuristic (Haswell/Broadwell that are quite nice).
I don't see any EPYC in that list, so I'm scratching my head (yes, I know it's a server but a random person won't) and I would miss the Threadripper choice (why doesn't it have Ryzen next to it).
The problem isn't assembling a PC. It's the fact that PC knowledge has a half-life of like 6 months, and you really can't trust review sites or web searches on this topic anymore.