Electric guitar advice?

I recently picked up an RGA42FM myself to replace an old 80s strat. I like the feel a lot better than the strat but I'm going to rewire the pickups from series to parallel to get some brightness and clarity back. Too crunchy with too much high rolloff for my taste. Concerning a floating trem the issue is it's a pain to tune which just adds another level of difficulty to someone starting out. If you're intending to be the Steve Vai 80s style dive bomber hero obviously you'll need one but if your favorite stuff doesn't use trem much it's an added complexity and cost you can do without. Palm muting is also a lot easier on a fixed, so is de-tuning.