Why Buy High-End 'Collector Guitar'???

OK... Jeff Beck Esquires (only 150 of them out there), Blackie's, Andy Summer's Tele's, EVH Frankenstrats... all over-priced guitars made for rich jerks to put in their display cases? Or NOT... Trouble is, Fender is putting their best efforts into THESE guitars...
Abigail Ybarra is HAND WINDING pickups for some of THESE guitars. (She has made pickups at Fender since the
late 50's, and is apparently a wizard... I can attest to this. She makes them for Tele's and Strats, but the Tele/ Esquire ones only
come on the serial-numbered Masterbuilt Guitars that have them... like John Cruz 50's tele's, and the Jeff Beck Esquire... for instance... they CANNOT be bought separately, unlike those for the Strats. The Strats ones are 'signed off' by Abby, but not HAND WOUND by her, like the ones on the tele's/esquires.) OK... tech stuff... but who do the artists turn to when they want TONE? If you go to Fender and order one of these guitars to your spec's, custom... it will cost you 10K... if you get a Jeff Beck, they are now going for roughly 9K market value, and the John Cruz Tele's (with his serial number on the back of the headstock) are going for roughly 5K. Which is the better deal? These guitars play better than ANYTHING currently being made by Fender... how do I know... I PLAY them. They also FEEL like the old guitars! Now, let's compare this to BUYING a vintage Fender Tele
from 1956... guess what is in them.. rubber bushings, on one of the pickups, and plastic pickguards that are over 50 years
old, and pickups which will eventually read LESS ohms, which means less SOUND... yes, some may still be fine in 30 years,
but if you are 23 years old now, and in a band, this means something... to say nothing of the reliability problems with old
instruments... Rubber and Plastic will eventually degrade, and sometimes destroy other things on the guitar, like the finish...
sort of like leaving batteries in something in a closet..for a few years...I know Gibson guys who have Goldtops, which had
tuners with plastic that was fine one year, and rotting the next... these things are approaching the end of their useful
lives, and will require replacement parts and maintenance... now if your Keith Richards...well... guess he can afford it....