Hollow-body guitars represent one of the evolutionary steps along the way from acoustic guitars to solid-body electrics. They have a fairly distinct tone, but they also have problems with uncontrolled feedback in loud situations. Which is why they don't get used for screamin' metal.

And super-high output pickups aren't going to push an amp into distortion any better than a pedal would, while limiting your ability to play anything other than distortion-drenched rawk.