Wodehouse was criticised for repetition very early on.
In the introduction to "Summer Lightning" he wrote...
"A CERTAIN CRITIC – for such men, I regret to say, do exist – made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained ‘all the old Wodehouse characters under different names’. He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy."
A few years ago I was in the same boat as you. I found a blog post that compared the first pages of all the available editions, which at the time I found useful, but Google and other search engines are useless nowadays and I can’t find it now, sadly. Eventually, I went with the Pevear version. It doesn’t quite have the zip that Buss’s Monte Cristo translation has, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Even though personally, I think The Three Musketeers gets a little lost in the second half of the story(though the first half is great).
I haven’t read Lawrence Ellsworth translation of Musketeers, but I have read his translations of Twenty Years After and Blood Royal. I found them very readable and a considerable step up from the widely available 19th century translations that exist in the public domain.