I agree, I like to try them all and not limit myself. I only limit myself if it just doesnt feel natural, but I at least give it a fair amount of time before I make my decision a month or so of not seeing any improvement on a certain technique. Even that is not enough time, but I have to make a decision cause I only have so much time to devote to the guitar. If I notice a decent amount of improvement in 3 weeks I stick it out. I noticed big improvement on descended economy which I thought I would never be able to do, but every morning for about a month I would wake up, drink my regular morning coffee, and just pick up and down through 3 note per string scale shapes. Because even though music is about hearing it, there is also a very big technical side too that unfortunately sometimes you have to kind of work on. How much? Thats the big question, but I do believe you need to somewhat otherwise youll never get anywhere.
I am always on the other side of this looking at the actual traversing picking path. Thinking of outside the box ways to be able to pull off high precision manuevers in the most stressful situations while maintaining a relaxed technique and finding the fastest path possible with no hiccup or hurdles. Similar to Marshall Harrison’s or Frank Gambales view probably Michael Romeo too. Why run a mile when you can accomplish the same feat in one lap? I see to many people going haywire trying to pick everything so brutally that it looks painful watching their technique. Not that I am saying it’s wrong, bad, or tiring, I don’t know. I do know for myself that being more economical, and analyzing certain ideas to make sure I can utilize a more relaxed picking hand, feels so much more relaxing to focus on the music. And not to mention economy picking techniques can honestly make you go even faster, I mean after all it is like always finding the shortcut in a race. If music was a weightlifting workout I guess I would be a strict alternate picker. 
I made a post about swiping yesterday and this is the exact pattern that gives me trouble. I don’t know which pick direction/movement to start with in starting with a downstroke. And I don’t know if 2WPS should be used or if swiping would work best (to get at top speeds).
I do something similar for those. I start with 2 pull offs, then one and last 4 notes all picked. Re-start the sequence. Hope it made any sense.
Well, I learned earlier this year that even notes per string works great for either single escape, USX or DSX and then I started applying it. Here’s descending fours as a 4 nps then 2 nps cycling pattern, alternate picked, no swiping required and fast AF. Same system (In reverse) works great for ascending as well. I hope that helps.
—8–7–5–3-------7–5------------------------------------
-------------------------------8–6--------10–8–6–5----