I know what you men about the number of settings. That is aggravated by the fact that so many of the settings such as Location have both system wide and app-by-app settings. To top it all off some apps have in-app preference settings in addition to those in the Settings app.
Suggestion — had you performed a backup to iCloud or to iTunes before you erased your iPhone, most of those settings could have been recovered from the backup and would have saved a lot of time and aggravation. FWIW I prefer the iCloud backup because the only action required on my part is to put the iPhone on charge before I go to sleep each night which I do anyway.
