Those who don’t know what this is about may appreciate Rick Beato’s (a guitar music vlogger) rant about it

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OU7RUpkXsV0

I think this makes some excellent points.

In particular the cultural impact of the S-shape guitar has been enhanced by people playing non-Fender S-shapes.

Think Eddie van Halen on his Frankenstrat which has it's own Wikipedia entry and has been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That was probably a Charvel body.

That goes to the heart of the "work of applied art" argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(guitar)

And if somebody here doesn't follow his channel, he is the guy who does easily the best music interviews on YouTube.