Sounds like you had a ton of fun listening to a lot of live music recently!!
That's really interesting to hear that the percentage of fenders, particularly strats seems to be waning.
PRS is definitely making some strides. Being a happy medium between the strat and the LP, I can see how they would appeal to the working guitarist. I hadn't listened to or read about Al DiMeola in a long time, and discovered that he's a PRS guy now. I think he even has a signature model. I always remembered him with that cool ebony LP!!
I can't wait until I can go out and get my hands on some PRS models and see what I think, especially compared to my strat and an lp studio.