That’s a whole different animal! Floyd Rose and high gain pickups… WHOLE different thing. And a very cool one, for sure, but different.
What you’re talking about is like comparing a regular Strat to an HH model. Yeah, it still looks like a Strat, but it’s not the same.
I could see swapping bridge pickups on a Vela, but I thought the neck pickup was part of the magic of the Vela.