Limited resources make sequencing as important as selection.

When you cannot have everything at once, order becomes as important as choice. The same effort spent in a different sequence produces a completely different result, because some things enable others and some are wasted without groundwork. Selection tells you what, sequencing tells you when, and only the second is time-aware.

Take the things you want and put them in an order rather than treating them as competitors. Ask what has to come first for the rest to be possible. Some of your conflicts will dissolve.