Nostalgia? Marketing? The old Plexis had laydown power transformers. I highly doubt they sound any different than upright ones. Just a different mounting style. IMO upright is better because they are shielded better. The laydown ones extend into the chassis where they radiate EMI inside the chassis.
It's like putting Fender truss rod nuts at the neck joint. People want it to look original, even if that means copying the worst aspects of the design.
No kidding. Sometimes we mount those necks on a surrogate body just so we can do a setup without having to take the guitar apart half a dozen times.
Yes. But bridge height doesn't affect neck relief. You take off the neck, mount it on the surrogate body, string it up, and set the relief right where you want it to be. Then the neck goes back onto the original body for the rest of the setup. That saves you several cycles of loosen the strings/remove the neck/adjust the truss rod/reattach the neck/tune up to pitch/measure the relief to see how close you got. Which is time-consuming and frustrating.
Nope. Although it is a redesign of both neck and body. And it's not "vintage," which means there's a large cluster of people who will hate it, just because.
Yup. You get easy, high-resolution adjustments, and you never have to deal with anybody's stripped-out hex nut.
