Lol
The heart wants what the heart wants, and it often doesn't make sense.
I'm in the opposite boat. I look at most PRSes and they look overwrought and try-hard to me. Then I see an overwrought, try-hard Strat and I'm doing a wolf-whistle.
If I buy a guitar, I want the OHSC for the shipping alone. After it gets here safe and sound, the case can go in the garage for all I care. Some cases are special in their own right though. Fender tweed cases are just cool. (Wait till relic tweed cases become a thing. You olds are going to flip your wigs!) And the premium Gibson cases are the business. It's weird - they dont add significant value to the sale, but buying them after costs a ton the rare times they hit the market (ergo selling the case can help subsidize the guitar if you have no soul and breaking up families is a hobby of yours.) The premium Gibson aluminum cases with the wheels? Forgetaboutit.
That's the one part of a relic job that even non-relic fans will do to their guitars - sand the neck.
Coincidentally, and the reason why that Gibson HP-II SDofD was the worst timed deal and what will no doubt be a life-long regret I will have to bear, I'm talking with the dude over at Wild West about this guitar I was eyeing since seeing it in his shop a month or so ago. He won't move much on it, but I'm warming up to the idea that he won't have to.
https://reverb.com/item/3227181-fender-custom-shop-1960-stratocaster-heavy-relic-rosewood-slab-board-olympic-white
And the neck feels like warm apple pie.
I doubt Dave would ever be able to do edgy or dangerous by himself. Dude's life is just way too fucking good and he enjoys the hell out of it. Dave has been living his best life, probably everybody's best life, for almost 30 years now.