Bubba po
Tiny Stonehenge Moment
You're not wrong....for a certain kind of person. A lot of people never leave their bedrooms and incessantly tweak and tinker.
I'm kind of in the middle. I care about pickups and pots, don't care about tubes. Could I make-do with any guitar? Sure, but I don't want to. I'll tinker with my own stuff, but I also play live and record all the fucking time. Tinkering doesn't consume me.
To be honest, you were not the target of my rant, far from it. You try out the nuances, just so you don't have to rely on received wisdom. But I still occasionally go to the Marshall forum and they make my bollocks ache. You can own a guitar because you love the object for its own sake, but nobody should obsess over nuances of a guitar or amp for the simple avoidance of doing something useful with it. And that's all too common.