Good luck with your decision. I would suggest to go to either an Apple store if you are near one, a Best Buy, or if an Apple retailer is not nearby, check out the reviews on Youtube.
As others have said, base models will do fine, look at the video reviews of the Touch Bar versions vs the base versions, and see if that might be something that you feel would be interesting to you. Then you just need to figure out how much storage you need, and if you want more RAM with from what you described, standard 8GB should suffice. Great options available though.