a couple of things on that:
a. I do not have a Brooks Booty. I bought a brand new Brooks about 25 years ago and it was very painfull to me, and I rode and rode to break it in (hey when you are young, you can deal with pain) and it never broke. So not a big Brooks proponent, thought of it (until recently, see c. below, as an S*M parephinelia thing)
b. There are leather saddles that are fine out of the box: Regals and Rolls.
c. A 30-some year old Brooks fell into my lap last month. Being older and (not as much) wiser (but being accustomed to dealing with pains and aches, including PITAs,) I decided to give it a shot on a 20 miler. It is a thick leather B15 that looked not 'broken in' (whatever that might be). Being wiser, I wore padded biking undershorts (underneath my shorts - I need the pockets, y'know.) And the thing performed. No pain. It replaced a 20 year old Vetta touring gel (that really needed to be replaced) and the only difference I could tell was that it was more slippery than my Vetta gel and that I had to adjust my rear north and south more often; so I might be a new convert on the Brooks thing for certain applications. And it was brown (like the OPs) and did not leak paint