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In my experience there is no synthetic material or saddle design that will provide the sitbone contact comfort of a leather saddle like a Brooks.
But leather saddles don't provide much perineum relief. If you are one of those people, who naturally have a pelvis and sit bone configuration that requires a perineum relief in order to be comfortable on a bike, then leather and steel frame saddles typically won't work for you, period.
If you don't have a problem with perineum contact, then the leather saddles will be far and away the most comfortable things ever created, and you're not likely to understand why some people can't ride them.