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I experience the same thing as you, and 8 out of 10 times I would prefer going for v60 rather than aeropress. For me aeropress gets to oily/murky and its harder to distinguish the flavour compaired to the v60. It does however tastes alot more due to the brewing process (coffee dissolved). The flavour gets more refined, clean and for me easier to spot in a v60 brew, and If I want more coffee disssolved I rather go for a kalita brew.
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Today I tried brewing Koppi coffee's Recent Kenyan Coffee "Gathaithi". It's one of the best kenyan coffees I've ever tasted, a huge peachy fruit bomb like coffee.
I brewed one aeropress at 15g dose/230g water and my usual method, with a few slight adjustments (I've been using the coffee for a while) and made a pretty nice cup.
I then brewed the same coffee but with v60, at 13.5g dose/230g water/95 degrees/2:30 brew time blah blah blah - made up the recipe on the spot, haven't made a v60 for a few months.
I was pretty surprised at how much more I preferred the v60, I knew I would, but the difference was pretty immense. It was so much cleaner and the flavours were more defined. The aeropress had a more "murky" flavour, with much less clarity, it was still very nice though.
Did some refractometry and they were both similar extractions, and the aeropress was obviously "stronger" (more coffee dissolved).
(note, have recently adjusted the water TDS so that's not the culprit, and the coffee was past optimal age, hence the experimentation)
I'm definitely going to keep preaching v60!
Has anyone else on here tried something like this?