To any ecommerce professionals / data analysts here, could you help me out with some ideas for product validation?

Can I ask:

Do you currently do (or would like to do if able) some kind of bulk or automated product research / competitor analysis / ML involving search engine data, ecommerce marketplaces or direct competitor website scraping that provides measurable practical value?

What do you find the most useful about these activities and what kind of questions are you specifically trying to answer?

What kind of data or insights would be practically valuable to you if you could discover anything you wanted to know about your niche, search engine "keyword landscape" (organic, paid (Google PLA's) or other SERP features), specific competitors or their products, marketing assets etc, anything at all related to your entire online market.

What are the biggest market research & analysis related problems you struggle with right now either due to existing solutions being none, inadequate, too slow/complex or too expensive.

Finally can you recommend any related tools in this area you use currently that you consider invaluable must-haves and why? Hoping to find something interesting here I'm not already aware of :-)

Thanks in advance!