Great for you! I think I'll get an LPC and that'll be it for me. I like Les Pauls, but there are many other interesting guitars out there, IMO.
Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with Les Pauls, Strats, old guitars in general, or vintage amps, for that matter. Or recreating old tone or whatever. My point is a little different. If you think about how rock music evolved from, say, blues to rock'n'roll to hard rock to punk to metal to grunge (and I'm not saying that each step is better than the previous one, I'm just naming big events in rock music that influenced not just themselves or even rock music, but human culture globally as they changed what people wear, how they cut their hair and even how the speak), they each did something to use technology differently. Via mods or just breaking things, they took it to the next level in some way.
And here we are, having an Axe FX and wanting to use an overdrive pedal like they did in 1812. And even refusing to look at extra knobs on that damned thing! This "this is how we do things around here" mentality is just wrong. Just wrong. While we sit and drool over those 60-year-old knobs, the world is changed by soul, R&B, rap, folk, and electronic music. And we're on the sidelines, waiting to die out like dinosaurs.
Open your mind, and your ass will follow!
Well, I guess that's enough of my rants for this thread, I'm taking it way off topic. Although it belongs in the wishlist forum, IMO.