Players tend to seek out guitars that bring out what thay want people to hear.

I had a really nice Strat for a while, but the sound just doesn't work for me. I like 2-pup axes; it's as simple as that. Scale length is not the issue. I have two SBG1000, 24 3/4" guitars, and two SG-2, 26" scale guitars. Both sound great, in ways that suit my playing. I ended up playing the neck pup on the Strat almost all of the time, because the other switch settings just didn't produce the kind of sound I was 'hearing' when I imagined a song.