@yoyoyaya - actually you hit on a a key point here and one I think is actually a very important part of the OP’s question.
I too am starting a analog journey and learning the trials and tribulations already from the onset. From my very limited experience thus far, it takes A LOT of work to get this right WRT to table, arm, cart, RCM and finally the actually record version - if you want to get the best out of it - this of course is subjective.
Figuring out what pressing out of the "200 versions" (using discogs) of an album is really daunting (and where I am struggling) and only someone familiar with how to interpret the dead wax numbers, years, labels, reissues etc...it goes on and on. I don’t know if there is a guide or if this can actually be "taught" short of experience, but provenance is key and knowing what to look for. One can reference the DR website as a resource, but many times the people submitting their values don’t even supply the %#$$ cat # or anything, but I digress and that’s a diff topic.
All that said, I understand just as with any other medium everyone goes about this at different levels of "care" - some could care less about versions and just get whatever is convenient and others will research to try and find the best SQ version of digital, analog pressing etc..no right or wrong method, just the way it is.