These days, I tend to go warm and articulate myself - or you might say ‘clear’ instead of articulate, as JKater does.
The problem with some (not all) bright guitars is that they can get kind of spiky.
It’s true that you can roll off high frequencies easily, but the problem is being able to choose where you want the turnover point; you really need a parametric EQ to be able to pinpoint what frequency you want the rolloff to begin, and I don’t know if any guitars or many amps have that feature; some EQ pedals do.
The EQ pedal I use has a semi-parametric with pretty good turnover frequencies to choose from, and it sounds good, though I mostly use it to cut low end when I’m running a speaker cab with tons of bottom. Still, the turnover point isn’t continuously variable.
The problem for me with guitars that need bottom added to balance the sound is that goosing the low and/or lower midrange creates mud, where a more natural low end warmth doesn’t seem to get as muddy.
Since mud is the enemy of my mixes, that’s a big factor in my choice of guitars.
Going through an amp, I find that a very bright guitar with a bit of distortion causes the amp to throw off even more harmonic content, and often it seems the result can feel kind of harsh.
The best warm-to-articulate balance I have is the 20th PS Anniversary model, with the Paul’s pickups and the middle NF. It’s crisp, but not overly bright, yet it has a solid low end. My Artist V also had a super-nice frequency balance that gave it a ton of versatility.
But most of my guitars are on the warm side of the equation, or at least can be controlled to give me a concentrated midrange, such as the CU24.