No tone wood is an upgrade unless you like the result .. or most others think it's an upgrade and you plan to sell it - which you probably will some day.
Truisms like "a good luthier can achieve (whatever)" and "there's overlap between the species" and "good (whatever) will outperform mediocre (whatever)" don't deny that there is usually an identifiable character and behaviour in average examples of different timbers - which is what you'll usually find in shops.
I advise you to collect all the sound descriptors others have used in one half of your open mind and go see if that's what you hear.
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