I don't entirely follow this tread, however, from my perspective and experience it appears to be associated with a need to find that elusive TONE which many guitar players search for their whole lives.
You are right in that it is elusive and may be a lifelong quest for the clean, fat tone I'm looking for. So I'm trying to find perhaps obvious things I might be missing that can incrementally move in that direction.
For example, I cut my teeth on Audacity and I recall that it had a "bass and treble". Studio One is so much more powerful than Audacity but no obvious/simple "bass and treble" FX. Instead, it has a boatload of Plug-ins. Other feature-rich DAWs have similar capability. So I wonder if I'm missing something in S1, beyond Pro-EQ, that might fatten my tone.