For a Les Paul, I agree with you on their weight.
I do have a Les Paul Studio thgough (much lighter).
I also like the feel of a Telecaster.
The shape of the back of a Strat sure makes it nice for sitting on the sofa to piddle around.
They are all great and all fun and millions of great records have been made with either. Why else would 60-year old designs be still around?
I still find the different approaches fascinating. Take a Telecaster...I mean, the design is so primitive, yet so brilliantly effective. LPs (of the original type) are hybrids of the “plank” construction with the set-neck tradition of Gibson. And yet, they are both pieces of wood, which vary from unit to unit and while it matters perhaps less on solid body guitars than acoustics, it’s very possible to have dead spots on a neck due to resonance-absorption that make two apparently identical guitars quite different. I used to obsess over guitars much more than I do now. I’m in a “get rid” of mode now. I have one cool bass I am trying to get $10K for and I think I will, after that, my vintage collection is gone.