I really like the Ibanez's, but I prefer a thicker neck.
I've played some really baaaad LPs, but I prefer the strat feel, I guess you just get used to what you play.
I really like the single coil SRV sound. Funny thing is, my strat has 2 humbuckers, & my tele has a neck HB. The switching on the strat lets me get the neck single sound, though.
The Ibanez have always seemed like a great value to me. I had one for a while that I never should have traded. I traded it for a peavey strat copy, which I traded for a jap strat 72 reissue (my favorite). To bad, It burned up in a house fire last year. I'll probably get something similar (clear gloss or butterscotch, big headstock, 7 1/4 radius, etc). There's a mexican Deluxe superstrat with 7 way switching that I've been looking at, you can get them on Musicians friend for under $500. I've played one before, pretty cool. You can have the neck and bridge pickup on at once, and all 3 pickups on at once if you want.