It's interesting that the guy who wrote this
also wrote this
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In the first quote you come across as a guy who just likes a good no nonsense sounding Les Paul regardless of specs and who also feels that a guitar should be judged as a whole rather than the some of its parts.
In the second quote you basically contradict everything you said in your first quote.
Imho, a core component of integrity is having consistency of view point, a conviction if you will.
I would say it appears that Big Al was right. You have a dislike of Historics / True Historics and enjoy disparaging them when its convenient rather than any true belief that every guitar is unique and can be great, regardless of its specs. How do I know this? Because your clear dislike of CC/Historic/True Historic Les Pauls is the only consistent sentiment in both those statements.
I don't see any contradiction, even when taken out of context and presented that way. Not much "integrity" going on there