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Since the bridge and sometimes the pickups are mounted to the wood guitar body, the wood does affect the tone.

That is what the videos try to debunk, and pretty convincingly. Unamplified you can hear it, but once you use the pickups for the sound, any affect the wood has is so small as to be undetectable by most people.

It becomes one of those discussions (dare I say, “arguments”) that are common in hi-fi circles regarding some of those really expensive snake oil hi-fi products. I’ve been part of THAT discussion since the early 70’s.

BTW, the youtube video with the blind A/B test is part four of a series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vgwaiScrwA

It’s baseline guitar has a clear lexan body.

I don’t care what most people can detect when hearing a guitar playing. I only care what I hear and feel when I’m playing one. As far as trying to make audio judgments from videos, I gave up on that a long time ago and only trust my ears in live situations.