Hi innonotion,
Thank you for your questions. Since we have expanded our ticketing offerings, we’re in the process of putting together a comparison chart of some sort to help make these decisions. Since that’s not available yet, and I’m most familiar with Woo Commerce Tickets and EDD Tickets since they’re been around the longest, I’ll concentrate my answer on them. Just as a general guideline, if you ever plan on selling physical goods, you may want to go with WooCommerce Tickets. If you will only be selling virtual goods (like tickets), EDD may be a good choice. Both are highly respected and should have good compatibility. As far as easy to understand, maybe take a look at the videos on our New User Primers and see what you think. https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-for-wordpress-tutorials/#primers
One word of caution though, at the current time neither is set up to handle tickets for recurring events, which you mentioned. That’s something that’s on our radar, but just not available yet.
– Julie