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@rodan
It's an interesting video and it confirms what I suspected, that only a few things really matter - pickups, pickup placement, scale length, effects, amp, speaker. A few things sort of (?) matter - wood, bridge type, saddle material, vibrato system. Some more than others.
Warmoth, being ideally placed to test these things, made a really good series of videos a while back where they swapped out things like body wood, neck and fretboard wood, solid vs chambered body, stainless steel vs nickel frets... they controlled everything else to a high degree, even cutting necks and bodies from the same wood blank where appropriate. The results confirmed the conventional wisdom to an extent - you can hear the difference between, say swamp ash and mahogany, but really nothing anyone will ever notice once you fire the signal through a bunch of pedals.
https://youtu.be/7k_A8GhN0L8