Wouldnt life suck if we all liked the same basses?!
FWIW i tried dozens of basses before deciding on my lakland, that was trying high end fenders, MM, Warwicks etc.
Even based my purple beastie on it!
You might get a few dogs occasionally, but for my (personal) testing, i found 9/10 fenders were howling, but all the Laklands i tested were lovely in comparrison.