NAIL ON THE HEAD!!!
Parallel situation:
which do you want: true PAF tone, or a pickup that is wound the same way as a PAF?
which PAF? whose sound are you after?
Heck even Gibson PAFs (and PATs) through the years have never been consistent.
The mere fact that the DC resistance of one '50s PAF can be 8k ohms and another is 10k ohms shows that you can only have a blueprint of how to assemble things but the be-all and end-all is how it sounds, and if YOU like it.