ive owned 2 fenders and one drive wildfire guitar combo.

one was a squier strat and one was a normal strat.

i didnt like the wildfire much, but hey i didnt have to pay for it :)

just go for your instincts. see some videos of your favorite guitarists and their guitars, and try to get something with those ffeatures (in example, the single coil or humbucker pickups, tremolo, the company its from)

i know youre curius about the guitars we have but we all have different tastes so i wouldnt just choose a guitar because someone else has it.