If you are an occasional/ casual shooter, and primarily concerned for hunting, I think choosing your powder can be overthought.
I want to be sure that the powder I am using will have an optimal velocity range potential (widest range of velocity, not necessarily highest velocity), and will load smoothly and consistently. Some powders have a very narrow load range between safe and dangerous...handgun loads are notorious for this, so I trade potential velocity for the wider (and to me safer) powder load range.
some powders don't meter from my powder measure smoothly. (I loaded 3031 for years for my 8mm, but the long powder pellets were a bit coarse in the dump).
748 covered the same ground, offered a bit more range and metered smooth as silk.
Also, I don't like to keep a lot of powders around, so I tend to steer my loads for different calibers to a powder that I can use for all.