With pickups like that in it, you don't NEED no steenking high-dollar guitars in your stable.
I don't regret trying nor keeping all these others. How else would I know there wasn't something better to be had? But I'm finally to the point of gigging, and the old MM is simply the best choice. Fewer knobs and switches to set wrong, light as a feather, every sound I need.
My new MM V will be just as ideal, once I get the frets lowered just a bit. They're too tall for my chord-fretting style - when I'm nervous.