Which is exactly what I took your opening post to mean - something I experience too! Perhaps we're just contrary...🤣
Funnily enough, I was having a similar conversation with my partner just yesterday. We were recalling that it's sometimes argued that the original must be superior simply because it is the archetype. Personally, I find that argument interesting but ultimately futile.
Jeez - it's about preference 🙄
So many of these threads seem to unnecessarily descend into discussion about the pseudo-philosophy of creating and performing music; it's supposed to be fun.
It's fine to love and hate things with no justification and it's also fine to call something crap whilst not meaning it's objectively and universally bad.
Great pedal for not a long of cash. Ignore the majority of online 'reviews' that seem to have been done by clowns trying to use the pedal as distortion/fuzz?
Sweet Caroline, Mr Brightside, Sex on Fire.
Anything by U2, R.E.M and The Beach Boys can go and jump in the lake too, along with the work of David Bowie, The Who and Pink Floyd 🤣