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@JB that strat looks great. Glad you are getting on with it.
IMO where the neck joins the body and nut width have more to do with how cramped or open playing feels than scale length alone. My SG is 24" but has chonky neck, wide nut and 19 frets before the heel meets the body, as well as a cutaway that extends all the way to the highest fret. The Tele has 6 frets past the neck-body join which means you have to reach right over to reach them... which in practice means you really never go there.
To me the SG feels more "open" and accessible than my 25.5" fenders, both at the cowboy chord and dusty ends. Not better, just different.