I disagree. Not surprising given our past differences.
Have owned many steel lugged bikes of both the custom/hand crafted and production variety.
If they all rode the same I wouldn’t have bothered to keep looking for ones that rode well for ME and MY riding style.
Of the three Sachs that have passed through The Lab, one remains.
Of the dozen or so Merckx that I’ve owned, one remains.
Most of the Schwinn Tempos I’ve owned have been consistently good but I finally stopped selling them to people who asked. One remains.
Etc. There are ten in The Lab, but it took over a hundred to get there.