I think, for instance, that it would have been great to illustrate the general observations above with the pickups you found bassy/muddy and the one you found bright in your mahog guitar, still regarding the tone you were after..
The reason I didn't mention particular pickups is that it really was a general observation based on many years of trial-and-error guitar-and-pickup swapping. I made some really bad choices, but slowly learned to make better ones.
I mentioned mahogany guitars and traditional bolt-ons because most of my guitars have been SGs (or similar), Strats or Teles, plus a few LPs. I've never owned a neck-thru, or anything made of exotic woods, and I've only owned a couple of superstrats so I can't say too much about them.
And most of the pickups weren't BKPs, so they wouldn't be too relevant to this discussion. I've tried
loads of different DiMarzios, Duncans, EMGs, Bardens, Kinmans, Armstrongs plus stock Fenders and Gibsons so my opinions are mostly based on those, plus the 10 or so BKPs I've had.
For personal BKP observations: I love Cold Sweats in an SG. The Rebel Yell worked well enough in a thin-body LP, but ultimately I didn't really like it. I found Crawlers very dark in a fairly lightweight Edwards LP (but others have said completely different - even that they're
bright!). But as for other combinations, I'm guessing - I can say, for example, that I wouldn't put a Crawler in an SG or a Riff Raff in a Tele..... but I haven't actually
tried them, because I'm 100% sure they wouldn't work!* :P
(* for ME, that is!)